Seasons & Episodes
Episode 1
In the late 18th century, young idealistic barrister William Garrow is given his first criminal defence case at the Old
Episode 2
William Garrow is now a celebrated Old Bailey barrister and, encouraged by Southouse, he defends the case of the infamou
Episode 3
After more derision from Silvester, Garrow is spurred on to defend Edgar Cole, a man who is accused of raping a servant
Episode 4
William Garrow continues to defend the victms of rough justice when he wins the case of a prostitute accused of murderin
Episode 1
When 133 African prisoners are thrown overboard from a slave ship in suspicious circumstances, Garrow challenges the bru
Episode 2
Garrow defends a man accused of sodomy, a capital offence in Georgian England. But Garrow is embroiled in a simmering se
Episode 3
Returning from war, weary and wounded, British sailors are treated with contempt and abuse at the Greenwich Hospital. On
Episode 4
Having failed to save a twelve year old mute boy from the gallows,Garrow enters the civil court to hear Hill's accusatio
Episode 1
William ends up risking his reputation as he returns to the Bailey to defend James Hadfield, who is on trial for high tr
Episode 2
Garrow is looking for a challenge, so he agrees to defend two Spitalfield weavers accused of destroying silk looms in an
Episode 3
General Thomas Picton, the Governor of Trinidad, is accused of allowing the torture of a young mixed-race girl - and in
Episode 4
Garrow successfully defends a man falsely accused of murder at a polling day riot. Approached by the victim's daughter G
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