- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Music composed by:
- Steve Rack
- Musicians:
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Leader:
- Arthur Leavins
- Conductor:
- Marcus Dods
- Singers:
- BBC Chorus
- Conductor:
- James Gaddarn
- Special Sound:
- The BBC Radiophonic Workship
- Technical direction:
- Amna Smith
- Radio adaptation and production:
- John Powell
- Clarinet:
- Jacques Lancelot
- King Edward IV:
- Anthony Jackson
- Elizabeth, his Queen:
- Barbara Mitchell
- The Duchess of York, his mother:
- Sylvia Coleridge
- Sons to the King:
- Edward, Prince of Wales: Christopher Barrington
- Richard, Duke of York:
- Derek Lamden
- Brothers to the King - George, Duke of Clarence:
- Martin Jarvis
- Brothers to the King - Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III:
- Paul Daneman
- Lord Rivers, brother to Queen Elizabeth:
- Christopher Bidmead
- Henry, Duke of Buckingham:
- Gary Watson
- Lord Hastings:
- Ian McKellen
- Sir William Catesby:
- Peter Marinker
- Sir Richard Ratcliff:
- Denys Hawthorne
- The Duke of Norfolk:
- Ronald Herdman
- Sir James Tyrrel:
- Trader Faulkner
- Sir Robert Brackenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower:
- Harold Kasket
- The Ghost of King Henry VI:
- Christopher Bidmead
- Margaret of Anjou, his widowed Queen:
- Beatrix Lehmann
- The Ghost of Prince Edward, his son:
- Nigel Anthony
- Lady Anne, Prince Edward's widow:
- Judi Dench
- Henry, Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII:
- Richard Briers
- The Earl of Oxford:
- Antony Viccars
- The Lord Mayor of London:
- Ronald Herdman
- First Murderer:
- Ian Thompson
- Second Murderer:
- James McManus
- Citizen of London:
- Trader Faulkner
- Citizen of London:
- Denys Hawthorne
- Citizen of London:
- James McManus
- Citizen of London:
- Ian Thompson
- The Bishop of Ely:
- Richard Hurndall
- Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby:
- Keith Grenville
