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Inside Broadmoor
- Author
- Emma French
- Narrator
- Karl Jenkinson
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 27 July 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe, John Straffen, and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan.
The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.
Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves,Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.
Contains mature themes.
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Details
- Author
- Emma French
- Narrator
- Karl Jenkinson
- Duration
- 5 hours 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 July 2021
- ISBN
- 9781666136869
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- True crime: serial killers and murderers, European history, True crime, True crime: serial killers and murderers
Synopsis
Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe, John Straffen, and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan.The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves,Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.Contains mature themes.
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