It is a question as old as time itself: is sacrificing one life justified, in order to save the lives of others?

A newly-published book, 'The Captain’s Dinner', focuses on events surrounding the 1884 voyage of the mignonette and the subsequent trial for murder of three of its four-man crew.

With Pat to discuss the grisly detail of those events, and their far-reaching consequences, is the book’s author, Adam Cohen.