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Vivat Rex 5: Treason

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A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton

In which one brother is murdered and another foretells the future.

Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins
(Barbara Jefford is a National Theatre player. Keith Michell broadcasts by permission of the Chichester Festival
For free booklet send large SAE to Vivat Rex, [address removed]

Contributors

Adapter:
Martin Jenkins
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Narrator:
Richard Burton
Richard II:
Derek Jacobi
Richard's:
null uncles:
Gaunt:
Michael Redgrave
Woodstock:
Nigel Stock
York:
Clifford Rose
The Duchess of Gloucester:
Barbara Jefford
Greene:
Christopher Good
Scroop:
Paul Meier
Bagot:
Sion Probert
Cheyney:
Jeffrey Segal
Bushy:
Nigel Lambert
Duke of Aumerle:
Malcolm Reid
Lapoole:
William Eedle
First Murderer/Lord Marshall:
Michael Goldie
Second Murderer:
Walter Hall
Ghost of the Black Prince:
Christopher Neame
Ghost of Edward III:
Keith Michell
Mowbray:
Don Henderson
Queen Isabella:
Maureen O'Brien
Northumberland:
Patrick Troughton
Source: Radio Times

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