According to the BBC4 website: "Simon Armitage presents the impossible story of the utmost moving witch trial in British history and the key chunk played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Ploy, a beggar-girl from Pendle in Lancashire, was the star memo in the trial in 1612 of her own mother, her brother, her sister and many of her neighbours and, prayer to her terrifying facts, they were all hanged."
Historians Malcolm Gaskill, Diane Purkiss and Ronald Hutton bestow all be appearing on the programme.
Looks very intriguing.
Links and ex- fixed posts:http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/03/review-witchcraft-very-short.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013fj47http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/07/history-of-pendle-witches-their-magic.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/08/news-kids-excavate-pendle-witch-site.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/09/charge-of-goddess-conference-2010.html