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15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Episode 3

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Pepys is given the job of escorting the King's naughty spaniel ashore.

Pepys is given the job of escorting the King's spaniel ashore but cannot stop laughing when the dog misbehaves.

In episode 3 of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Pepys returns safely across the Channel with the King. Given the task of escorting the King's spaniel ashore, he finds it hilarious when the dog misbehaves. The King invites the sick to court, and they come in their thousands to be touched by him and 'cured'. For his part in restoring the King, Edward Montagu is knighted and made Lord Sandwich, and there's a promotion for Samuel. He 's given the job of Clerk of the Acts for the Navy Board. Samuel and Elizabeth will have their own boatman and a new house in Seething Lane. But Pepys has a rival for the job - a Mr Barlow is laying claim to the post - and it's a race against time, and bureaucracy, for Pepys to get his contract signed and sealed!

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Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
Charles II ..... Ewan Bailey
Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson
Mr Beale ..... Lee Mengo
Robert Holmes ..... Andrew Wincott
Mr Payne, the boatman ..... Matthew Gravelle

Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter. 
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.

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Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the 17th century diaries. With Kris Marshall

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