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

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

Catrin Stewart

Manon Edwards

Matthew Gravelle

Sara McGaughey

Adrian Scarborough

Bethan Walker

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 3

Sam is busy with navy work, since England is now at war with the Dutch.

More people infected with plague, while Sam is busy with navy work, since England is now at war with the Dutch. With Kris Marshall, Katherine Jakeways.

More Londoners are infected with plague. In an effort to contain it, they are shut up in their houses, with planks nailed across the doors so they can't get out. Sam's mother wants him and Elizabeth to come and stay in the country away from the danger. But Sam plans to send his wife to Woolwich, out of harm's way. He himself is too busy with Navy work to leave, especially now that the country is at war with the Dutch. 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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Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the 17th-century diaries. With Kris Marshall

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