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Vivat Rex 25: Divorce

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A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton

In which Cardinal Wolsey destroys a marriage and the King falls for Anne Boleyn.

Directed by Martin Jenkins.

Contributors

Writer:
William Shakespeare
Adapter:
Martin Jenkins
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Narrator:
Richard Burton
Henry VIII:
Robert Lang
Queen Katherine:
Sian Phillips
Crier:
Douglas Blackwell
Cardinal Wolsey:
Stephen Murray
Norfolk:
Kevin Flood
Gardiner:
Jonathan Scott
Secretary to Buckingham:
Kenneth Shanley
Sands:
Peter Howell
Lovell:
Timothy Bateson
Lord Chamberlain:
Jack May
Anne Boleyn:
Diana Rigg
First Gentleman:
James Thomason
Second Gentleman:
Gavin Campbell
Suffolk:
Henry Knowles
Cardinal Campeius:
Peter Bull
Old lady:
Flora Robson
Scribe:
Malcolm Gerard
Griffith:
Richard Pearson
Source: Radio Times

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