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15 Minute Drama: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

John Biddle

Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Eiry Thomas

Ewan Bailey

Matthew Gravelle

Kate McAll

Hattie Naylor

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

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Episode 1

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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Sam's cousin asks to borrow £350 to rebuild his house, then jumps in a pond.

Sam's cousin Anthony Joyce asks to borrow £350 to rebuild his house, but before Sam can decide, Anthony jumps in a pond. With Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways.

Sam starts the year observing people gambling with dice at the Groom Porter's but doesn't venture a wager himself. Then his cousin, Anthony Joyce, asks to borrow £350 to rebuild his house after the Great Fire, but before Sam can decide, Anthony tries to take his own life by jumping in a pond. He survives initially but succumbs to a fever. Sam helps his widow by persuading the King not to take all her goods, as is the custom in the case of suicide. 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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Ninth series of Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the 17th-century diaries

Ninth series of Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the 17th-century diaries. With Kris Marshall

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