 Charles Dickens published an account of the murder in his magazine "All the Year Round" after initially rejecting it because he felt the story to be too well known and the account of the stepmother's dreams rather far-fetched.The fascination continued into the 20th century with five film versions, including the 1935 "Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn" starring Tod Slaughter, and the 1980 BBC drama "Maria Marten", with Pippa Guard in the title role.The story has been dramatised for radio a number of times, including two radio dramas by Tod Slaughter (one broadcast on the BBC Regional Programme in 1934, and one broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1939), a fictionalised account of the murder produced in 1953 for the CBS radio series "Crime Classics", entitled "The Killing Story of William Corder and the Farmer's Daughter."