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15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

Adrian Scarborough

Bethan Walker

Catrin Stewart

Matthew Gravelle

John Biddle

Kate McAll

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 6, Episode 2

A freezing winter gives way to a heatwave, and the bubonic plague claims its first victims

A freezing cold winter gives way to a May heatwave, and the dreaded bubonic plague claims its first victims. With Kris Marshall, Katherine Jakeways.

A freezing winter gives way to a spring heatwave, and the dreaded bubonic plague claims its first victims. Sam sees three houses in the city barricaded shut, with their infected occupants inside, and a red cross painted on the door. Yet in many ways normal life continues. Sam advises Lady Sandwich about the marriage of her daughter, Jemima, and Elizabeth is pleased with her new purchase of paradise fish in a glass bowl. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. 

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 viol 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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