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Dandelion Dead - Season 1

"Could He Blow Them Away?"

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

Top Cast

  • Peter Vaughan

    Peter Vaughan

    Dr. Hinks

  • Bernard Hepton

    Bernard Hepton

  • Don Henderson

    Don Henderson

  • Lesley Sharp

    Lesley Sharp

    Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies

  • Diana Quick

    Diana Quick

    Marion Glassford-Gale

  • Michael Kitchen

    Michael Kitchen

    Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

  • David Thewlis

    David Thewlis

    Oswald Martin

  • Sarah Miles

    Sarah Miles

    Catherine Armstrong

  • Robert Stephens

    Robert Stephens

    Henry Vaughan

Overview

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

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