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Classic Serial: Plantagenet: Series 2

Classic Serial: Plantagenet: Series 2: Episode 2: Edward II - The Greatest Traitor

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Plantagenet: Series 2

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Episode 2: Edward II - The Greatest Traitor

Edward II - The Greatest Traitor

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Plantagenet: Series 2, Edward II - The Greatest Traitor

By Mike Walker. Sam Troughton plays Edward II, prey to his passions.

By Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. With Sam Troughton as Edward II, Trystan Gravelle as Roger Mortimer and Hattie Morahan as Queen Isabella.

Edward the Second - The Greatest Traitor
by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. While Edward's power is prey to his passions, his queen, Isabella, and his most powerful ally, Roger Mortimer, find a passion of their own. 

Cast
Edward the Second ..... Sam Troughton
Isabella ..... Hattie Morahan 
Mortimer ..... Trystan Gravelle
Prince Edward ..... Joseph Samrai
Despenser ..... Jonathan Forbes

Other parts were played by Sean Baker, Simon Bubb, James Lailey, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, and Alun Raglan .

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole

Philip Jackson, Sam Troughton and Patrick Kennedy take the roles of Edward the First, Edward the Second and Richard the Second in a new series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty. 

These plays tell the story of the birth of a new Europe after the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of belief, above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which are so familiar to us now were new to an age which had no template for domination on this scale.

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Series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty

Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty

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