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While Richard Wilson as Gaius pulls out all the stops when he's tortured by a witchfinder, and when the witchfinder is the deliciously harsh looking Charles Dance, who seems like he brought his own costume from home, it's telly drama as rich and sweet as chocolate cheesecake.

SFX 2009

While Richard Wilson as Gaius pulls out all the stops when he's tortured by a witchfinder, and when the witchfinder is the deliciously harsh looking Charles Dance, who seems like he brought his own costume from home, it's telly drama as rich and sweet as chocolate cheesecake.

SFX 2009

Witchfinder General (1968) - Charged with hunting down witches in 17th-century England, royalist "witchfinder" Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) travels from village to village with his brutish assistant Stearne (Robert Russell), forcing confessions and torturing women who refuse to comply.

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Their remit seems to have expanded somewhat as they become more akin to the medieval ‘witchfinder general’ becoming so full of themselves and what they believe they stand for.

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One would also hope that Bailey doesn't end up looming over the pre-watershed TV schedules like some witchfinder general of the overtly sexual.

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Recall that Kay has, at least up to now, been an assiduous witchfinder in this regard.

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Recall that Kay has, at least up to now, been an assiduous witchfinder in this regard.

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The fact that this folksy cri-de-coeur came from a woman whose home church once bizarrely brought in a Kenyan witchfinder to pray over her and keep her safe from "the spirit of witchcraft" during 2008 election lent it a certain surreal, Sarah-through-the-looking-glass quality.

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Kate A - thank you again for a wonderful post I don't know how you find the energy or indeed the facts - I did pay tribute to your writing on "witchfinder balls" yesterday and I don't want to patronise you so I will just say how grateful I am that someone else is bothering to refute the "fisking" I have been getting from Mike - lol phil

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Kate A - thank you again for a wonderful post I don't know how you find the energy or indeed the facts - I did pay tribute to your writing on "witchfinder balls" yesterday and I don't want to patronise you so I will just say how grateful I am that someone else is bothering to refute the "fisking" I have been getting from Mike - lol phil

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008