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By the Sword Divided: 2: Cruel Necessity

on BBC One London

by John Hawkesworth
A serial in ten episodes created by John Hawkesworth
with Jeremy Clyde as King Charles I, Peter Jeffrey as Oliver Cromwell
and Rob Edwards as John Fletcher, Bert Parnaby as Sir Austin Fletcher

1649 - with the trial and execution of King Charles I, the Royalist cause finally seems to be lost.

Feature: page 4
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer/Serial created by:
John Hawkesworth
Music composed by:
Ken Howard
Music composed by:
Alan Blaikley
Story Supervisor:
Jeremy Paul
Designer:
Roger Cann
Designer:
Donal Woods
Producer:
Jonathan Alwyn
Director:
Brian Farnham
King Charles I:
Jeremy Clyde
Oliver Cromwell:
Peter Jeffrey
John Fletcher:
Rob Edwards
Sir Austin Fletcher:
Bert Parnaby
Lady Lucinda Ferrar:
Lucy Aston
Walter Jackman:
Edward Peel
Emma:
Janet Lees-Price
Anne Fletcher:
Sharon Mughan
Col Ireton:
Bruce Lidington
Mr Phelps:
Colin Haigh
Col Harrison:
Robert Ashby
Mr Bradshawe:
Barrie Cookson
Mr Cook:
David Allister
Col Leckie:
Andrew McCulloch
Dick Skinner:
Peter Guinness
Lord Edward Ferrar:
Peter Birch
Mr John Downes:
John Rolfe
Sergeant at arms:
Ray Float
Masked woman:
Maev Alexander
Princess Elizabeth:
Eleanor Rhodes
Henry, Duke of Gloucester:
Mark Egerton
Sir Thomas Lacey:
Timothy Bentinck
Potman:
Harry Fielder
Customer:
Douglas Blackwell:
Customer:
Stephen MacKenna
Fiddler:
Neville Hughes

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