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The Spitfire • Salem Witch Trial judge (8min • 8min)

After novelist Fay Weldon explores a new British reality TV show called The Week The Women Went (5min), John Wilson visits London's Science Museum for its new exhibit, Inside the Spitfire, marking the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Britain); then Richard Francis talks about his book about a Salem Witch Trial judge who later had doubts, Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials And The Forming Of A Conscience.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Front Row"