The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1
Arthur Griffiths
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Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing wrong-doers, but additionally subjecting them to "starvation or the withholding of fluid, by drowning, stoning, impaling or by exposing the wretched victims to the stings of insects or snakes." Newgate Prison was one of the most famous - or infamous - prisons in England from the middle ages until the nineteenth century. Griffiths, a prison administrator, takes us inside where we discover "man's inhumanity to man". ( Lynne Thompson) (9 hr 6 min)
Chapters
General Introduction | 8:41 | Read by Lynne T |
Introduction | 5:25 | Read by Lynne T |
Mediaeval Newgate | 40:46 | Read by Lynne T |
Newgate In The Sixteenth Century | 54:01 | Read by JudyDerby |
Newgate In The Seventeenth Century | 27:53 | Read by Alimay |
Newgate After The Great Fire Part 1 | 29:15 | Read by Alimay |
Newgate After The Great Fire Part 2 | 30:54 | Read by Alimay |
The Press-Yard | 40:29 | Read by Lynne T |
Notable Executions Part 1 | 41:25 | Read by Lynne T |
Notable Executions Part 2 | 46:57 | Read by Lynne T |
Remarkable Escapes | 50:15 | Read by Ross Klatte |
Newgate In The Eighteenth Century Part 1 | 27:01 | Read by Lynne T |
Newgate In The Eighteenth Century Part 2 | 31:38 | Read by Lynne T |
Later Records Part 1 | 28:51 | Read by Kalynda |
Later Records Part 2 | 34:48 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Highwaymen And Pirates | 47:41 | Read by realisticspeakers |