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James II: The Storms of this Deceitful World

Mike Walker's epic chronicle of Britain's most mutable dynasty

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Pip Torrens

James Fleet

Ken Bones

Clive Hayward

Alex Waldmann

Olivia Ross

Stephanie Racine

Matthew Watson

Elaine Claxton

David Cann

Damian Lynch

Michael Bertenshaw

Mark Edel-Hunt

Sasha Yevtushenko

Marc Beeby

Mike Walker

The Stuarts: Charles II, Part Two: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days

Charles II, Part One: Through the World in Various Fortune

17/08/2014

Charles II, Part Two: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days

BBC Radio 4 - The Stuarts, Charles II, Part Two: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days

Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Stuarts considers Charles II after the Restoration.

By Mike Walker, with Pip Torrens and James Fleet. Charles II's feud with parliamentary reformers and his audacious plot to confound them and secure the throne for his brother.

By Mike Walker

Charles II fathered over a dozen illegitimate children, yet his wife Queen Catherine was unable to produce an heir. Mike Walker's sweeping epic sees Charles fending off the claims of his eldest son Monmouth and the plots against his increasingly unpopular Catholic wife and brother. All this while juggling an often tempestuous love life. 

Directors: Sasha Yevtushenko & Marc Beeby.

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