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James and John: A True Story of Prejudice and Murder Episodes

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  1. Episode 5 - The Final Pleas

    5/6 There was little chance of reprieve for the two men, but one last desperate hope remained.

  2. Episode 4 - The Trial

    4/6 James and John have been caught together, arrested and imprisoned. Now they await trial.

  3. Episode 3 - The Offence

    3/6 James Pratt and John Smith have borrowed a rented room and risked everything.

  4. Episode 2 - An Assignation

    2/6 Amidst pervasive antipathy towards homosexuality, James and John meet.

  5. Episode 1 - The Move to London

    1/6 Simon Russell Beale reads the story of the last men in Britain to be hanged for sodomy.