1) British radio drama 2) Play by Terence Rattigan 1) Dreyfus case 2) Headline-making issue 3) Newsmaking legal case 
[play] Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle is a 1975 radio play by the English author Terence Rattigan. It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast on the BBC on 27 October 1975. Alma was played by Diana Dors. Rattigan was then c... A cause célèbre (b; lang, famous case, plural causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and heated public debate. The term is particularly used in connection with celebrated legal cases. The term is a French phrase in common usage in English. In French, cause means, here, a legal case, and c Harold I Williams Jr during a Miles Davis session in 70`s jazz era ...
[n] - any incident that attracts great public attention
noun an incident that attracts great public attention