This is the second part of a three part story about Sarah Dazley the Potton Poisoner. 

This episode opens with Sarah's arrest on the banks of the Thames in London and her appearance in front of the Lord Mayor. We'll hear a late night conversation between Sarah and the women guarding over her in a Biggleswade tavern. Find out why arsenic poisoning was such a problem in Victorian Britain. As well as exploring the details of the inquests into the deaths of her first husband and baby. It's an episode with twists and turns, delving into Victorian attitudes towards domestic abuse and violence, and their preoccupation with the nature of women. It sets up a final episode at the dramatic murder trial in Part Three.

This episode deals with murder, domestic violence, and the death of an infant. Please choose carefully where and how you listen. 

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Weird in the Wade is researched, written and presented by Nat Doig

Theme music and the Potton Poisoner theme is by Tess Savigear

Additional crowd voices by Savigear and McOwen

All other music and sound effects are by Epidemic Sound

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