Victorian Britain's Maddest Mystery (TRIH ep 400)
1871 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook speak with novelist Zadie Smith about the Victorian Titchborne case and her novel The Fraud, which revisits the extraordinary trial of a man claiming to be Sir Roger Titchborne. Smith summarises the saga: a presumed-drowned heir, a large claimant (Arthur Orton), a devoted Jamaican servant-witness (Andrew Bogle), and an eccentric legal defence led by Edward Kenealy. The conversation traces the family curse, the overseas search for the missing heir, the c...
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