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Jekyll and Hyde

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There's a criminal mastermind at work and when police interrupt a robbery in progress, they are shocked to unmask the ringleader. He's the last man they would have expected.

By day, William Brodie was a prosperous businessman, faithful husband and loving father and a respected Edinburgh civic and church leader. What no one knew, until his very public trial and bizarre hanging, was that by night William Brodie turned gambler, pimp, sexual predator and masked leader of one of Edinburgh's most notorious gangs. Brodie had fascinated Robert Louis Stevenson all of his life so in 1886, when he was asked to come up with a 'shilling shocker' he jumped at the chance. Brodie's incredible true story and Stevenson's fictional refashioning of it, takes us into the scientific debate over the reality of the split or multiple personality.

Programme Information

  • Genre: History

  • Subgenre: Factual

  • Producers: CREAM PRODUCTIONS

  • Broadcaster: n/a

  • Duration: 1 x 50'

  • Tags: History Author Story

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