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Afternoon Theatre: Poor Pikeman

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Edwin Pearce

With Barry Foster as Wat Tyler, John Rowe as John Batt
Six hundred years ago this month the brutal enforcement of a Poll Tax proved the final straw for the bonded peasantry. They rose up in their thousands and marched on London, led by Wat Tyler, a retired soldier and known thief.
BBC Birmingham
(Broadcast last Monday)
Woddis on... page 73

Contributors

Writer:
Edwin Pearce
Director:
Roger Pine
Wat Tyler:
Barry Foster
John Batt:
John Rowe
Source: Radio Times

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