The Tree of Liberty by Nigel Baldwin

A BBC Radio series set in eighteenth-century Amiens, France at the height of the French Revolution.

Despite the chaos swirling around him, Lieutenant General Jacques LaCroix of the Police Judiciere, aided by Sergeant Monet and Guardsman Duval and local "sorceress" Madeleine, must maintain law and order as France's revolutionary ideals seems to be slipping away into anarchy and violence and those who are supposed to lead France into a new age of enlightenment may actually be dragging it down.

Episode 1 00:00
Friends in High Places

David Calder plays Lieutenant General Lacroix, trying to police France despite the turmoil of the Revolution.

A girl is murdered while Robespierre is in town.

Could there be a cover-up going on?

Nigel Baldwin's four-part detective series - set in Amiens, 1791.

Lt Gen Lacroix ... David Calder
Monet ... Brian Hibbard
Charlotte .... Kathryn Pogson
Dupont .... Ian Rowlands
Roland .... Christian Rodska
Robespierre .... Brendan Charleson
Didier .... Steve Hodson
Mme Rives .... Bethan Jones
Surgeon .... Matthew Morgan
Mme Giradou ... Lesley Rooney
Duval ... Simon Ludders

Original music by Paula Gardiner.

Director: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.

Episode 2 56:17
To Be a Pilgrim

Lacroix calls on the local sorceress to help him solve what appears to be a ritual killing.

Episode 3 1:53:15
Health of a Nation

When a doctor is found dead, his son confesses to the murder. But he's got an alibi, so why would he lie?

Episode 4
Moon Conjunct Uranus

The death of a young girl is linked to a magical sect. But as the evidence comes together, it seems to point back at Lacroix.

David Calder plays Lieutenant General Lacroix, trying to police France despite the turmoil of the Revolution.

Nigel Baldwin’s detective series set in Amiens, 1791.

Lt Gen Lacroix ... David Calder
Madeleine ... Frances Tomelty
Duval ... Simon Ludders
Monet ... Brian Hibbard
Josephine ... Bethan Jones
Chalier .... Steve Hodson
Surgeon ... Matthew Morgan
Jean .... Robert Harper
Roland .... Christian Rodska
Michel ... Andrew Wincott
Simone .... Sara Harris-Davies

Original music by Paula Gardiner.

Director: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.


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