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Vivat Rex: 20: Warwick the Kingmaker

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton

In which Warwick changes sides and a King makes a surprise marriage.

Directed by Martin Jenkins
(Peggy Ashcroft and Norman Rodway are members of the RSC)
(Shakespeare and the Histories: Radio 3, 9.40 pm)

Contributors

Narrator:
Richard Burton
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Queen Margaret:
Peggy Ashcroft
A Father that has killed his Son:
Christopher Benjamin
A Son that has killed his father:
Alaric Cotter
Prince of Wales:
Christopher Guard
Warwick:
Charles Gray
Richard, Duke of Gloucester:
Norman Rodway
George, Duke of Clarence:
Geoffrey Collins
Lady Elizabeth Grey:
Susan Engel
King Lewis:
Stephen Thorne
Oxford:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Lady Bona:
Anne Rosenfeld
Servant:
Michael Harbour
A Post:
Alaric Cotter
Somerset:
Michael Harbour
Rivers:
Walter Hall
Hastings:
Christopher Benjamin
Brackenbury:
Bruce Beeby
Source: Radio Times

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