Julian Fellowes examines the unsolved murders of three members of the same upper middle-class family living in 1920s Croydon, who died within a year of each other from arsenic poisoning.
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Title: The Case of the Croydon Poisonings (30 Dec 2005)
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| Julian Fellowes | ... | Self - Presenter | |
| Jean Marsh | ... | Violet Sidney | |
| Stella Gonet | ... | Grace Duff | |
| Richard Lumsden | ... | Thomas Sidney | |
| Amanda Root | ... | Vera Sidney | |
| David Yelland | ... | Doctor Elwell | |
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Rachel Atkins | ... | Mrs. Noakes |
| Thomas Brodie-Sangster | ... | John Duff (as Thomas Sangster) | |
| Jennifer Calvert | ... | Margaret Sidney | |
| Tom Chadbon | ... | Edmund Duff | |
| Jacqueline Clarke | ... | Aunt Gwen | |
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Michael Haughey | ... | Doctor Jackson |
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Abigail Hollick | ... | Amy |
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In November 1929, Violet Sydney died from what was subsequently shown to be arsenic poisoning. In fact, two other members of her family had died in the previous year, her daughter Vera and her son-in-law Edmund Duff. With those bodies subsequently exhumed, they too were found to have been poisoned. As the family matriarch, Violet was very demanding of her three children and brooked no disagreement from them. There were several suspects in the case. Edmund was married to Violet's eldest daughter Grace; a son, Thomas, was desperate to return to the USA with his American wife; Dr. Jackson, who treated all three of the deceased, was quite taken with Grace and may have had a hand in the deaths. Finally, there was also the cook who prepared the soup that killed Vera. Although the case of the Croydon poisonings was never solved, Julian Fellowes hosts this dramatic re-creation of the events and offers his own views on the likely murderer. Written by garykmcd
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