A serial play to be broadcast in nine weekly instalments with Robert Douglas and Milton Rosmer
Adapted by Jack Inglis from the novel by Anthony Hope
Music composed by Robert Chignell and Leslie Woodgate and recorded by the BBC Orchestra, Section C, conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Episode Five - 'A Chance for a Villain'
Cast in order of speaking
(by permission of O'Bryen, Linnit, and Dunfee)
(by permission of O'Bryen, Linnit, and Dunfee)
(by permission of George Black)
Production by Leslie Stokes
Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Englishman visiting Ruritania for the Coronation of King Rudolf V, finds himself, owing to his extraordinary resemblance to the King, mixed up in an extravagant intrigue. Rassendyll impersonates King Rudolf at the Coronation, and afterwards the King is abducted by his half-brother, Duke Michael. There were then two 'kings' in Ruritania, and in last week's instalment you heard how Rassendyll met Antoinette de Mauban at the summer house, and how he was surrounded there by Rupert Hentzau and others of Black Michael's confederates who sought to come to terms with him.
Rassendyll learns that the King is a prisoner at Zenda and succeeds in battering his way from the summer house to safety. At a State ball he publicly indicates his love for the Princess Flavia.
Today's instalment carries Rudolf's extraordinary adventures one step farther.