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15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

John Biddle

Tim McMullan

Ewan Bailey

Eiry Thomas

Geoffrey Streatfield

Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Kate McAll

Hattie Naylor

Samuel Pepys

15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Episode 2

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Episode 2

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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

Sam spots Debs, his former maid and lover, and is unable to resist following her.

Sam is at Whitehall when he spots Debs, his former maid and lover. Unable to resist his pounding heart, he follows her. With Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways.

Elizabeth engages a new maid but Sam is dismayed to find she is ugly with small pox scars upon her face and very large hands. Elizabeth's fury at his deceit of her has abated and the household is more peaceful now, though Sam is still unable to venture abroad without Will, their servant, as his 'guard'. Then one day in April, while working at Whitehall, he spots Debs Willet, his former maid and lover. Unable to contain his feelings, he manoeuvres Will out of the way and chases after her, finding her in the chapel below-stairs. When he goes home after this brief encounter, he hardly dares to speak to Elizabeth for fear of giving himself away. 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
Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King

A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.

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Tenth and final series of Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the famed 17th-century diaries.

Tenth and final series of Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the celebrated 17th-century diaries. The year is 1669.

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