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Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor: 1. New Churches

Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor

1. New Churches

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London, 1711: An architect sets to work on some new churches.

London, 1711: An architect sets to work on some new churches, but few could imagine his dreadful purpose. Stars Philip Jackson.

Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect, builds churches to the glory of God, but underpins them with his secret obsession with the old religion. 

Nicholas Hawksmoor, a detective in contemporary London, investigates murders that mirror the sacrifices from 300 years before...

Starring  Philip Jackson.  

Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed novel, first published in 1985.

Dramatised in two parts by Nick Fisher.

Dyer/Hawksmoor    ......    Philip Jackson
Sir Christopher Wren    ......    Norman Rodway
Anne    ......    Miranda Foster
Walter    ......    Thomas Arnold
Mirabelis    ......    Richard Johnson 
Nat Eliot    ......    Ben Crowe
Thomas Hill    ......    Jordan Calvert
Ned    ......    Andrew Wincott 
Hill    ......    Terence Edmond
Tom's Mum    ......    Helen Ayres 
Woman Tramp (Annie)    ......    Richenda Carey
Boy 1    ......    Luke Smith
Boy 2    ......    Bradley Sowter
Teacher    ......    Clare Corbett

Other parts played by the cast.

Recorded on location in London’s Spitalfields and Clerkenwell and at Soundhouse Studios.

Producer:  Janet Whitaker 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.

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Drama: Crime

Tale of parallel investigations into killings across two centuries

Peter Ackroyd's tale of parallel investigations into killings across two centuries

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