Sunday. There's a leg of lamb on, a policeman at the table, and the technician who's writing the report about the mast sitting right next to him. So Gaz hides the microphone in the fruit bowl and broadcasts the dinner — because Monday morning at eight, a skylift arrives.

Tonight's history is the worst thing that ever happened in a Swedish parish. In 1674 two teenagers were hired, paid twenty öre, and stood at the church door at Torsåker to point out the witches among the women walking in to worship. Around a hundred were named. Two hundred children testified, some of them five years old — and their own fathers walked them to the courthouse. On the 1st of June 1675, seventy-one people were led up a hill: sixty-five women, two men and four boys. Beheaded, then burned on three fires, one for each village. One in five of all the women in the parish.

Then a boy pointed at the priest's own wife. She slapped him, and he said he'd got the sun in his eyes. So it could stop. It just had to point at somebody whose husband mattered.

Nobody in that story thought they were the villain. That's the whole point of it. And there is someone at this table who has just worked out that she pointed too.

Every week this show ends with somebody telling the establishment to do one. Not this week — nobody at Torsåker got any last words at all.

Featuring Gaz, Degsy, Brenda Higginbottom, Konstapel Bengt Johansson, and, for the first time, Sixten, who learned his English off Buzzcocks sleeves.

Music: "Sun In Me Eyes" and "Seventy-One".

A memorial stone was raised on Häxberget in 1975. It reads: women died, men judged, the belief of the age comes down on people.

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