Marlowe: The Complete Plays
Christopher Marlowe 's first and last plays begin a five-part series marking the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
Dido, Queen of Carthage Marlowe's first play is based on Virgil's Aeneid. Directors Michael Earley and Alan Drury
8.30 Josephine Veasey sings Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
8.40 The Massacre at Paris Marlowe's last play, based on the St Bartholomew's
Day Massacre of the Huguenots in Paris in 1572. A savagely comic account of political and religious strife.
Directors Alan Drury and Michael Earley