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~DGAR LUSTGARTEN, whose crime "novel, A Case to Answer, is a gem, turns his expert knowledge of criminal law to very good purpose in the fine BBC Prisoner at the Bar series (1YC). In the urbane, highly literate tradition established by Harry Hodge and H. B. Irving and continued by Montgomery Hyde. Mr. Lustgarten manages, in reexamining such celebrated trials as those of Richard Piggot, Lizzie Borden
and Frederick Seddon to give not only a concise statement of the facts, but also to examine many of the legal points involved. His crisp voice, tinged at times with irony, is perfectly suited to this kind of topic, and in quoting the proceedings, he gives them just enough dramatic flavour to suggest the different speakers. This was noteworthy in the case of Frederick Seddon, in which Mr, Lustgarten "played" the exchanges, between the Prosecutor, Rufus Isaacs. and the arrogant Seddon, to splendid effect. These re-tellings of famous trials have more than a_ sensational value; handled with such skill, they become human ,dramas, as well as revealing to the layman something of the subtleties of legal procedure and of the safeguards surrounding the administration
of pritish justice.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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198One-Man Shows New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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