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4. Imprisonment

Episode 4 of 6

PC Quin is unjustly jailed, Maria is cruelly imprisoned by her father - but Lord Trowle becomes reckless. With Richard E Grant.

Lord Trowle and PC Quin meet in Court and Jeremiah Morley meets his match in Mrs Gascoygne.

Starring Richard E Grant and Mick Ford.

Patrick Carroll’s crime series set in 1830, a year after the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'.

PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford
Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth
Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones
Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant
Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey
Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna
Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers
Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman
Frederick Roe ...... Timothy Bateson
Sergeant Cazalet ...... Alan Barker
Turnkey ...... Mark Straker
Lord Laverton ...... James Greene
John Staples ...... Ian Lindsay
Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton
Mrs Gascoyne ...... Elizabeth Bell
Florrie ...... Susan Sheridan
Mrs Gregory ...... Elizabeth Kelly

Singer: Martin Carthy.

Director: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.

30 minutes

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Sat 13 May 202302:00

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