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Philip Palmer - The King's Coiner

Drama: Historical

23/04/2002

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Philip Palmer - The King's Coiner

Royal Mint warden Isaac Newton goes to any length to pursue a notorious counterfeiter.

Royal Mint warden Isaac Newton goes to any length to pursue notorious counterfeit coiner William Chaloner. Stars Ian McDiarmid. From April 2002.

By the 1690s, Isaac Newton - already the world's greatest mathematician - was hungry for a new challenge and became Warden of the Royal Mint. 

His pursuit of London's most notorious counterfeiter, William Chaloner, confirmed him as a man prepared to go to any lengths to solve a problem...

Ian McDiarmid stars as Isaac Newton. 

Written by Philip Palmer. 

With Katy Cavanagh as Catherine Barton, Barnaby Kay as William Chaloner, Peter Marinker as Mr Secretary Vernon, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo as Tom Holloway, Colin Adrian as Thomas Carter and Jeremy Swift as Lord Halifax

Director: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

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