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15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

John Biddle

Tim McMullan

Bethan Walker

Matthew Gravelle

Richard Mitchley

Eiry Thomas

Kate McAll

Hattie Naylor

15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Episode 1

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Sam finds the Thames frozen while parts of London still smoulder from the Great Fire.

4 Extra Debut. New Year's Day 1667, and Sam finds the Thames frozen while parts of London still smoulder from the Great Fire. With Kris Marshall, Katherine Jakeways.

Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways return as Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys in Hattie Naylor's continuing dramatisation of the famous diaries.

1667. On New Year's Day, Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys awake to find the Thames covered in ice, while at the same time some parts of London still smoulder from last year's Great Fire. At Whitehall, Lord Brouncker's clerk is accused of taking bribes, and there are rumours that the French will invade. Sam, meanwhile, is preoccupied with finding a husband for his sister, Pauline, and with visiting various lady friends, including Mrs Knipp, Mrs Bagwell and Mrs Lane's sister, Doll.

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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