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Sunday Play: The Hammer

BBC Radio 3
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Writer/director Jonathan Holloway has adapted his
Red Shift Theatre Company production. A Gothic thriller, the play follows the destinies of a clerk to
Henry VIII , a Jacobean architect and a modern interior designer. Their paths converge and intertwine through hidden passages, maps, murder, love and obsession in the supernatural atmosphere of an old house.
Music by Adrian Johnston An Essential production

Contributors

Director:
Jonathan Holloway
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Music By:
Adrian Johnston
Frederick:
Martin Jarvis
Matthew:
Tim McInnerny
Simon Skinner:
Bill Nighy
Cobi Stockbridge:
Trevor Nichols
Gregory Linton:
Joseph Bennett
Michelle Robinson:
Saira Todd
Elizabeth Chynworth:
Deborah Andlay
Sara Carter:
Melinda Walker
Lord Chynworth:
Crawford Logan
William Cecil:
Crawford Logan
Source: Radio Times

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