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Classic Serial: My Last Duchess

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

During a trip to Italy in 1838, Robert Browning visited Ferrara, home of the Dukes of Este. Inspired by a fresco portrait he saw there and what he learned of the Este family, he wrote his poetic masterpiece, My Last Duchess. The duke's first wife, whose portrait the poem vividly described, died young in suspicious circumstances in 1561. Martyn Wade's dramatisation attempts to solve the mystery of the poem - what happened to the duchess and who did the deed?
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Browning
Unknown:
Martyn Wade
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Producer:
Catherine Bailey
Duke:
Roger Allam
Duchess:
Emily Mortimer
Pandolfi:
Tim McInnerny
Fabriano:
Robert Hands
Madruz:
John Hartley
Musician:
Jacob Heringman
Source: Radio Times

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