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Mistress of Hardwick

on BBC Two England

Scenes from an Elizabethan life by ALISON PLOWDEN with and In 1603 Elizabeth lay dying in London. In Derbyshire Bess of Hardwick and her granddaughter waited impatiently for news that the Queen had named her successor.
Other parts played by WENDY JOHNSON , JEREMY WALLIS
SHEILA DUNN , CYRIL VARLEY JAY NEILL , MICHAEL BOONE THE NONSUCH DANCERS
Choreographer PEGGY DIXON
Research GILES OAKLEY
Director RODNEY BENNETT Producer VICTOR POOLE
(Mistress of Hardwick was first shown as a ten-part series on BBC1)
Book (same title), El.00, from bookshops

Contributors

Played By:
Wendy Johnson
Played By:
Jeremy Wallis
Played By:
Sheila Dunn
Unknown:
Cyril Varley
Unknown:
Jay Neill
Unknown:
Michael Boone
Unknown:
Peggy Dixon
Unknown:
Research Giles Oakley
Director:
Rodney Bennett
Producer:
Victor Poole
Bess of Hardwick:
Hilary Mason
Anna Cropper her granddaughter:
Arbella Stuart
Sir Henry Brounker:
John Humphry
Narrator:
Gary Watson
Bess's family Shrewsbury:
Preston Lockwood
William Cavendish:
Barrie Cookson
Gilbert Talbot:
Christopher Masters
Young Arbella:
Melinda Clancy
Elizabeth Cavendish:
Clover Roope
Charles Stuart:
Graeme Thomas
Actor:
Bess'S Household
John Dodderidge:
Eric Francis
The Rev Starkey:
Peter Gale
Arbella's tutor:
David Ashford
Music master:
Michael Jessett
Dancing master:
Jack Edwards
Messenger from the council:
Anthony Dutton
Leicester's man:
Graham Suter

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