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The Essay I Confess: The Power of the Confession Episodes

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  1. Episode 5

    5/5 Journalist Andrew Brown examines our insatiable appetite for celebrity confession.

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 Dr Iain Lauchlan explores the Moscow show trials. Were they an atheist inquisition?

  3. Episode 3

    3/5 Isobel Gowdie skilfully elaborated her witch confession. Dr Emma Wilby examines why.

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Confession spans the spiritual and legal. Prof John Arnold explores the Inquisition.

  5. Episode 1

    1/5 Dr Kathryn Tempest examines the roots of one of history's most powerful legal concepts.