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A Most Horrid Flame

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A second chance to hear Michael Hordern as Samuel Pepys London, 1666: Saw the fire grow in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. It made me weep to see it .. - Pepys's account is the best we have of the Great Fire which in September 1666 destroyed four.fifths of the city of London. The previous year there had been the Plague.
In this adaptation of volumes 6 and 7 in the new definitive edition of the Diary we see the private and the public Pepys at the centre of these momentous events.
Narrator GABRIEL WOOLF
Adaptation by BARRY CARMAN Producer ALAN HAYDOCK followed by an interlude of 17th-century music: on records
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Producer:
Alan Haydock
Source: Radio Times

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