Here's a fascinating 1987 retelling of Conan Doyle and The Edalji Case from BBC Radio starring Ian Cuthbertson as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Michael Harbour as George Adalji.
George Ernest Thompson Edalji (March 1876 - 17 June 1953) was an Anglo-Indian solicitor and son of a vicar in a West Midlands village who served 3 years hard labour after being convicted on a charge of injuring a pony. He was pardoned after a campaign in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took a prominent role. The difficulty in overturning the conviction of Edalji was cited as showing a better mechanism for reviewing unsafe verdicts was needed, and was a factor in the 1907 creation of a court of appeal for England. Present day commentators on the case see it as demonstrating pervasive racial prejudice and resentment toward incomers by highly placed traditionalists in provincial England.
Негізгі бет Conan Doyle and The Edalji Case - BBC - Radio - 1987
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