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The Stuarts: This War Without an Enemy

14/07/2013

This War Without an Enemy

BBC Radio 4 - The Stuarts, This War Without an Enemy

By Mike Walker. Charles I's best qualities come to the fore only in defeat.

By Mike Walker. Charles I's stammer famously disappeared on the morning of his execution. A story of the English Civil War, with Julian Rhind-Tutt and Anton Lesser.

by Mike Walker. Charles I's best qualities come to the fore only in defeat, when there are no more decisions to take but only courage and calm to see him through. Only in this moment of perfect stillness can he begin to understand what has brought him here. 

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole & Sasha Yevtushenko
Sound design by Colin Guthrie

Production co-ordinator: Selina Ream
Studio managers: Martha Littlehailes, Alison Craig.

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