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Dramatisations of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novels.

Dramatisations of CJ Sansom's Tudor crime novels, featuring lawyer detective Matthew Shardlake.

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CJ Sansom's Tudor mystery featuring lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.

Sansom. Shardlake boards the Mary Rose to interview the former fiancé of Ellen Fettiplace. Starring Justin Salinger.

Continuing Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor mystery novel by C.J. Sansom.

As he continues his investigations into the murky history of the Hobbey family, Shardlake finally realises the startling truth about Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young ward, Hugh Curteys. And in his parallel enquiries into the case of Bedlam inmate Ellen Fettiplace and the traumatic events at Rolfswood nineteen years earlier, he boards the Mary Rose for a second interview with Phillip West – an assistant purser on the warship, and Ellen’s one-time fiancé. 

Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick 
Warner ..... Neil McCaul
Priddis ..... Clive Hayward
Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard
Sir Richard Rich …. Nicholas Murchie 
Phillip West …. Chris Pavlo
Queen Catherine ..... Emily Wachter 
David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong 
Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon 
Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton 
Sailor ..... Gary Duncan 

Other parts played by members of the cast. 

Writer ..... C. J. Sansom 
Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald 
Director ..... David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

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Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries.

Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of CJ Sansom's Tudor mysteries, adapted by Colin MacDonald.

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