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15 Minute Drama: Pepys: After the Fire

Kris Marshall

Katherine Jakeways

John Biddle

Mathew Baynton

Matthew Gravelle

Ewan Bailey

Tristan Sturrock

Kate McAll

Hattie Naylor

Samuel Pepys

15 Minute Drama: Pepys: After the Fire: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Pepys: After the Fire

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Pepys: After the Fire, Episode 2

Ambitious designs for a new London are presented to King Charles II.

King Charles II calls for plans to rebuild London. John Evelyn, Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, three of Sam's closest friends, are keen to present their ambitious designs.

After the Great Fire, the clear up begins. But when Sam Pepys and his servant Will go out in the carriage to look at the City, there's so much rubble they can't even tell where they are. Old London had been described as looking like a hastily constructed bonfire waiting for someone to put a match to it. No one wants that back. So King Charles II calls for plans for a magnificent new London. Three of Sam's closest friends - John Evelyn, Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren - are eager to present their ambitious designs. 

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.

Sound by Iain Hunter

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

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By Hattie Naylor. Samuel Pepys recalls events after the Great Fire of 1666.

By Hattie Naylor. Nearing the end of his life, Samuel Pepys recalls events after the Great Fire of 1666.

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