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The Borgias: Part 1

on BBC Two England

by John Prebble
A serial in ten parts
Starring Adolfo Celi, Oliver Cotton, Anne Louise Lambert, Alfred Burke

1492: The Pope dies. Rodrigo Borgia in spite of his age and his many illegitimate children sees a last chance for election to the Papal throne. He sets about achieving it by a mixture of bribery, blackmail and political cunning.

Borgia Music Album (record REP 428, cassette ZCH 428) from retailers
(Ceefax subtitles on page 270)

Contributors

Writer:
John Prebble
Music:
Georges Delerue
Studio Lighting:
Dave Sydenham
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Mark Shivas
Director:
Brian Farnham
Cardinal Camerlengo:
Reginald Peters
Rodrigo Borgia:
Adolfo Celi
Perotto:
William Ellis
Giulia Farnese:
Seretta Wilson
Cesare Borgia:
Oliver Cotton
Baglioni:
Nicholas Le Prevost
Giuliano della Rovere:
Alfred Burke
Ascanio Sforza:
Clive Merrison
Giovanni Orsini:
Joss Buckley
Paolo Orsini:
Martin Potter
Michelotto:
Maurice O'Connell
Johann Burchard:
Ralph Nossek
Adriana de Mila Orsini:
Anna Korwin
Cardinal Deacon:
Arnold Diamond
Cesare's groom:
Cyrus Elias
Luigi:
Lorenzo Fiani
Cardinal San Severino:
Michael Kilgarriff
Cardinal of Venice:
Denis Carey
Juan Borgia:
George Camiller
Prince Djem:
Derrick Branche
Mantuan Ambassador:
Robert Rietty
Lucrezia Borgia:
Anne Louise Lambert
Vannozza Canale:
Barbara Shelley
Carlo Canale:
Mervyn Pascoe
Jofre Borgia:
Louis Selwyn
Giovanni Sforza:
Mark Buffery
Ludovico Sforza:
Robert Ashby
Charles VIII:
Andrew Dunford

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