Eleventh Hour, The
Broadcast: 3rd September 1947
Added: Aug 03 2009
The clock on the black panelled wall read eleven when Lord Hensley the presiding chief justice straightened the poles of his robe adjusted his powdered wig and nodded curtly to the prosecuting attorney to open the case for the crown. To the accused in the prisoner’s dock the time was significant it was the eleventh hour in more ways than one everyone in the courtroom knew already that the trial was strictly a British formality, that a verdict of guilty was only a matter of time…