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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Drama: Classic & Period

21/12/2006

BBC Radio 4 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

A green knight issues a challenge - a test of courage and heart.

4 Extra Debut .A green knight issues a challenge - a test of courage and heart. Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage's translation with Ian McKellen.

Set in Arthurian Britain at Christmas time with the knights of the Round Table, whose festivities at Camelot are disrupted by the appearance of a green knight. 

The stranger has come to lay down a challenge - a test of courage and heart which Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, accepts.

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage's translation of the medieval verse romance is narrated by Ian McKellen.

Sir Gawain ...... Samuel West
The Green Knight/Sir Bertilak ...... David Fleeshman 
Bertilak's wife ...... Deborah McAndrew 
Arthur/Servant ...... Conrad Nelson

With specially composed music by Gary Yershon.

Producer: Susan Roberts  

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

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