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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Karl Jenkinson. |
| Summary |
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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Broadmoor Hospital (Crowthorne, England)
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Broadmoor Hospital (Crowthorne, England) -- History.
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Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- Crowthorne -- History.
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Violent offenders -- Great Britain -- History.
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Mentally ill offenders -- Great Britain -- History.
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French, Emma, author.
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Jenkinson, Karl, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666136876 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666136875 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14316444 |
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