Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of C J Sansom's Tudor mysteries. At Hoyland, the grand country home of Sir Nicholas Hobbey, Shardlake and Barak find family tensions running high. Hobbey’s young ward, Hugh Curteys, describes his relationship with his former tutor, Michael Calfhill, and reveals his own desire to enlist as a soldier and fight against the French.

Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric dramatisation of the best-selling novel by C J Sansom.

Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick
George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog
Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon
Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton
Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard
Abigail Hobbey ..... Isabella Inchbald
David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Avery ..... Clive Hayward
Other parts played by members of the cast.

Writer ..... C J Sansom
Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald
Director ..... David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Show less