A series of programmes providing thoughts on those turbulent years in the 17th century when
England lost one king and found at least one other. With historians
Christopher Hill and Pauline Gregg , scientist Lewis Wolpert , film-maker Peter Greenaway , novelists Eva Figes and Rose Tremain , musician Bernard Palmer , and Jack Emery , whose dramatisation of three 17th-century trials begins on Friday.
Producer Piers Plowright