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The Roses of Eyam

on BBC Two England

by Don Taylor
with Leslie Sands as Thomas Stanley and Ronald Pickup as William Mompesson.

In 1665 a box of clothes came to the Derbyshire village of Eyam from London. Within hours a rash like a ring of roses was appearing on some of the inhabitants and soon after they were dead. The plague had begun...

(from Birmingham)
(A-tishoo! A-tishoo! they all fell down: colour feature pages 56-58)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Don Taylor
Music composed and conducted by:
Herbert Chappell
Music played by:
The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Costume:
Joyce Hawkins
Make-up:
Jan Nethercott
Designer:
Michael Edwards
Producer:
David Rose
Thomas Stanley:
Leslie Sands
William Mompesson:
Ronald Pickup
Catherine Mompesson:
Caroline John
The Bedlam:
Raymond Platt
Marshall Howe:
Brian Coburn
Edward Thornley:
Mike Pratt
Emmot Sydall:
Hazel Clyne
Rowland Torre:
Seymour Matthews
Unwin:
John Garrie
Merril:
Joe Gladwin
George Vicars:
Robin Parkinson
Colonel Bradshaw:
John Malcolm
Mrs Bradshaw:
Ruth Goring
Mrs Cooper:
Anne Dyson
Edward Cooper:
Paul Arlington
Jon Cooper:
William David
Richard Sydall:
Ivor Salter
Mrs Sydall:
Pat Keen
Sarah Sydall:
Wendy Wax
Ellen Sydall:
Valerie Phillips
George Frith:
Will Stampe
Frances Frith:
Margot Field
Elizabeth Frith:
Hilary Sesta
Mary Frith:
Diana Rayworth
Francis Frith:
Robert Hamilton
Anne Frith:
Karin Dominic
Isaac Thornley:
Tony Sympson
Elizabeth Thornley:
Pat Becket
William Thornley:
Derek Martin
Francis Thornley:
Robert Lindsay
Mary Thornley:
Marion Lines
Humphrey Torre:
Ernest Jennings
Edytha Torre:
Brenda Duncan
William Torre:
Walter Sparrow
Scythe Torre:
Stephen Whittaker
Thomas Torre:
Paul Rosebury
Frances Torre:
Rosalyn Elvin
Mrs Hancock:
Annette Kerk
John Hancock:
Jack Le White
William Hancock:
Morgan Sheppard
Alice Hancock:
Anne Rosenfeld
Elizabeth Hancock:
Jacquie Dubin
Elizabeth Swanne:
Maureen Morris
Lydia Chapman:
Malya Woolf

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