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Drama on 3: The Pattern of Painful Adventures

The Pattern of Painful Adventures

23/11/2008

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Antony Sher plays William Shakespeare in a play about the Bard's life.

Antony Sher stars in a play about the life of William Shakespeare. Business is going well, but the Bard urgently needs a collaborator for his latest play.

By Stephen Wakelam

Business is going well, but the playwright urgently needs a collaborator for his latest play. His daughter is getting married. His brother has a sick child and is in need of a job. It is 1607 and Shakespeare's life is at a turning point.

William Shakespeare ..... Antony Sher
Jack Robinson ..... Will Keen
John Marston ..... Stephen Critchlow 
George Wilkins ..... Chris Pavlo 
Susannah Shakespeare ..... Helen Longworth
Richard Burbage ..... John Rowe 
William Ostler/ Robert Johnson ..... Robert Lonsdale
Edmund Shakespeare ..... Joseph Kloska

Produced and Directed by Jeremy Mortimer (Rpt).

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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