The Ballad of Maria Marten

In 1827 Maria Marten was brutally murdered by local landowner William Corder in a barn in Suffolk. The story of Murder in the Red Barn has been sensationalised into songs, novels, plays, radio dramas and films ever since. Beth Flintoff’s sensitive adaptation dispenses with the gory details and explores the person of Maria herself from […]

In 1827 Maria Marten was brutally murdered by local landowner William Corder in a barn in Suffolk. The story of Murder in the Red Barn has been sensationalised into songs, novels, plays, radio dramas and films ever since. Beth Flintoff’s sensitive adaptation dispenses with the gory details and explores the person of Maria herself from