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The King's General

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

This dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's classic love story set during the English Civil War is being rebroadcast as a companion piece to Saturday's My Cousin Rachel. Its heroine is the beautiful Honor Harris, crippled in a riding accident, yet loved forever by Sir Richard Grenville, the King's General in the West.

Contributors

Author:
Daphne Du Maurier
Dramatised by:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
cherry Cookson
Honor:
Cathryn Harrison
Sir Richard Grenville:
Roger Allam
Matty:
Carolyn Pickles
Robin Harris:
Philip Sully
Gartred:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Young Dick:
Gary King
Older Dick:
David Thorpe
Jonathan Rashleigh:
Peter Penry Jones
Mary Rashleigh:
Sally Edwards
Lord Robartes:
Jonathan Adams
William Rashleigh/Colonel:
John Fleming
Source: Radio Times

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