DESCRIPTION:
After making the 50-mile journey to the cottage in the Somerset village of Loxton, Peter found Noreen reclining on a sofa in the sitting room. When he asked her what had happened, she began rambling incoherently for almost 45 minutes. Eventually, Noreen told him that she had seen an evil look in Marie’s eyes, and said, “There was one moment when the look became so strong and the evil in the eye so strong that I plucked them out”. Peter was stunned and asked if Marie was dead; Noreen replied, “It is not Marie that is dead. It is the evil that was in her”...
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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All Is Well by Moments
Heaven’s Reach by Moments
Lancashire Road by Moments
Templar by Moments
A Most Sinister Kind by Dresden, The Flamingo
The Search by CJ-0
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NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
Daily Herald - Sept 2, 1954
Daily Herald - Sept 3, 1954
Daily Herald - Sept 25, 1954
Daily Herald - Oct 19, 1954
Liverpool Echo - Sept 2, 1954
Liverpool Echo - Sept 9, 1954
Liverpool Echo - Sept 24, 1954
Evening Standard - Sept 2, 1954
Evening Standard - Sept 9, 1954
Evening Standard - Sept 16, 1954
Evening Standard - Sept 24, 1954
Evening Standard - Oct 18, 1954
The Wells Journal - Sept 3, 1954
Daily Mail - Sept 2, 1954
Daily Mail - Sept 9, 1954
Daily Mail - Sept 16, 1954
Daily Mail - Oct 18, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Sept 16, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Sept 24, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Oct 18, 1954
Bristol Evening Post - Oct 18, 1954
The Daily Telegraph - Sept 2, 1954
Birmingham Post - Sept 2, 1954
Birmingham Post - Sept 25, 1954Central Somerset Gazette - Oct 22, 1954
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Sept 24, 1954
Herald Express - Sept 2, 1954
The Birmingham Mail - Sept 2, 1954
Nottingham Evening Post - Sept 2, 1954
Birmingham Gazette - Sept 2, 1954
The Guardian - Sept 2, 1954
The Guardian - Oct 19, 1954
Leicester Evening Mail - Sept 9, 1954
Evening Sentinel
Evening Sentinel - Sept 24, 1954
Evening Sentinel - Oct 18, 1954
The Shepton Mallet Journal - Oct 1, 1954
The Shepton Mallet Journal - Oct 22, 1954
Daily News (London) - Thursday 02 September 1954 - Page
Daily News (London) - Friday 03 September 1954 - Page 5
Daily News (London) - Saturday 25 September 1954 - Page 5
Bradford Observer - Thursday 02 September 1954 - Page 1
Bradford Observer - Friday 03 September 1954 - Page 5
Bradford Observer - Friday 10 September 1954 - Page 5
Bradford Observer - Saturday 25 September 1954 - Page 5
Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 19 October 1954 - Page 25
Daily Mirror - Friday 03 September 1954 - Page 5
Daily Mirror - Friday 10 September 1954 - Page 8
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 19 October 1954 - Page 9
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 19 October 1954 - Page 8
Bradford Observer - Friday 03 September 1954 - Page 5
Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 09 September 1954- Page 1
Central Somerset Gazette - Friday 17 September 1954 - Page 7
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 22 October 1954 - Page 4
Wells Journal - Friday 25 February 1955 - Page 1
ONLINE ARTICLES
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collar-lot-britains-policy-internment-second-world-war/
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/dark-somerset-one-somersets-most-1600013
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/female-patients-in-a-high-secure-hospital-in-britain/D52738B6818B821E9198A7D313D96521
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/women-barred-557275
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10721787/Women-committed-Britains-criminal-lunatic-asylum-revealed-grisly-new-book.html