with John Laurie
David Peel and Robert Rietty
The love story of Mary Queen of Soots by Margaret Irwin
Dramatised as a play for radio in four parts by Spike Hughes with incidental music composed by Frank Cordell
2—' Lovers' Meeting '
(Continued in next column)
Lute player, Freddie Phillips
The Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cordell
Production by Douglas Moodie
The first meeting of Mary, Queen of France and Scotland, and the Earl of Bothwell, took place on the hunting field at Fontainebleau; this was quickly followed by a private audience at which he impressed his young Sovereign more by his viral personality than by his charm of manner. Within a year, and a few months after the death of her boy-king husband, Francois, she set sail for Scotland escorted by Scotland's Lord High Admiral, the Earl of Bothwell. There she faced her strongest opponent, the fanatical John Knox. But he was not the only trouble-maker. The Earl of Arran, out of hia wits for love of the Queen, planned to abduct her. For being implicated in this affair, Bothwell was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, but escaped and fled to the Continent where he remained for more than two years.