Crime Classics - Blackbeard’s 14th Wife Why She Was No Good For Him

The year is 1714 and the place is the Caribbean. The sound you
will hear is a pair of scissors snipping away. The young lady who
is using them is trimming her husband’s beard. The beard has just
been washed to get the blood out of it for a few hours ago he
stabbed a few fellows from up close. He had been in a battle and
was very vain about his beard. It is a black beard which caused
some eighteenth century pundit to dub him Blackbeard. His real
name is Edward Teach, profession pirate his wife Hannah one would
think was such a good wife but oh no she wasn’t and here is
Thomas Hyland’s report on Blackbeard’s 14th wife and why she was
no good for him. 


Duration: 29:53 


Starring: Lou Merrill, William Conrad, Betty
Harford, Alistair Duncan, Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns 


Broadcast Date: 11th November 1953