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Plantagenet

Series 3

Episode 1: Henry V - True Believers

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Young prince Hal will inherit an unstable throne, and a kingdom riven with heresy and rebellion.

Victory over the rebel Hotspur, and then the French, will bring peace to England and glory to the king - but at what cost to the man?

Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles.

Stars Luke Treadaway as Hal, Lydia Leonard as Catherine, James Lailey as Thomas of Earlham, Nicky Henson as Sir John Oldcastle, Paul Moriarty as Henry IV, Simon Bubb as Badby and Carl Prekopp as Bradmore.

With Rikki Lawton, Gerard McDermott and Christopher Webster.

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Show less

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