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Classic Serial: The Faerie Queen

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic poem is dramatised in two parts as a swashbuckler by Philip Palmer. Book One is based on the story of St George and the Dragon, mixing comedic storytelling with moments of vivid poetry as Spenser fights to control this reworking of his tale of adventure.
Director Toby Swift. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Edmund Spenser
Unknown:
Philip Palmer
Director:
Toby Swift
Spenser:
Simon Russell Beale
Stella:
Holly Aird
Redcross:
Lloyd Hutchinson
Princess Una:
Indira Varma
Dorien:
Paul Rider
Archimago:
Ray Lonnen
Duessa:
Carolyn Pickles
Satyrane:
Ewan Bailey
Source: Radio Times

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