posted 03-13-2001 06:51 AM            

LWT has been commissioned by the Discovery Travel Channel to make a 60 minute programme on 'Dungeons'. The programme will be a travel show looking to reveal 'hidden' secrets of British history for American tourists planning to visit the UK. The intention is to give the impression of revealing secrets that only a few know. The programme will initially be shown on American television and will have a potential audience of 40 million.

We are looking for interesting stories relating to dungeons, the torture that took place inside them, modern-day uses for dungeons and anything else related to them. We are also keen to talk to experts in the field of dungeons & torture who would be able to help us find interesting places and characters for the documentary - as well as potentially feature in the programme themselves. The programme aims to incorporate dungeons around Europe as well as the UK

I am working towards a very tight deadline and ideally I would be keen to speak to someone this week (12th March) about the programme.

I hope this information is useful. Please phone me on my number below. I look forward to hearing from you,

posted 03-30-2001 06:10 AM            

Such athing was shown to the public in the 'toture-chamber' of castle Kyburg until recently. As a kid I often visited that castle and thought of the cruelly killed victims of that machine.
Sorry to say that it was fake, same as all the stories that went with it. Like those metal-trousers that can be locked with a key, so the lord could be sure that no one touched his lady in his absence, the 'iron maiden' turned out to be a fantasy-product of the 18th/19th century. I know of no reference that mentions a medieval 'iron lady'. Or does such a thing exist in England? Our medieval tortourors had other methods, and they're as much as cruel as the one mentioned above...