The Buckingham Palace Connection

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The Buckingham Palace Connection: 2. The Royal Flush

2. The Royal Flush

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Buckingham Palace Connection, 2. The Royal Flush

George V has sent Captain Tremayne to try and rescue the Tsar of Russia.

1918: George V has sent Captain Tremayne to Russia to attempt a rescue of the Tsar and the Imperial family. Stars Jeremy Clyde.

1918. Young Captain Tremayne has been sent to Russia by George V. 

His mission: to rescue the Tsar and the Imperial Royal family from Ekaterinburg. 

He arrives in Vladivostock to be met by a beautiful dark-eyed woman - Maria Astakhov....

Starring Maurice Denham.

Dramatised by Ted Willis from his own 1980 novel.

Himself .... Ted Willis
Lord Tremayne .... Maurice Denham
Captain Tremayne …. Jeremy Clyde
Maria Astakhov .... Miriam Margolyes
Major Story .... Bob Sherman
Colonel Kazakov .... Sean Barrett
George V .... Michael Aldridge
Lydia Elman .... Elizabeth Seal
Semyonov .... Michael Spice
Dukhonin .... David Timson
Klaus .... John Rye
Admiral Knight .... Murray Kash
High Commissioner .... Alan Dudley
Samarin .... James Windsor
Gromyko .... Cyril Shaps
Mogilov .... Nicholas Courtney

Music arranged and played by Richard Holmes.

Balalaika played by Roberto Campadeli. 

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1981.

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Drama: Historical

Writer Ted Willis's drama about what might have happened in Ekaterinburg in 1918.

Writer Ted Willis appears as himself in a five-part drama about how events unfolded in Ekaterinburg in 1918 and what fates befell various members of the Imperial Russian Family.

Writer Ted Willis appears as himself in a five-part drama about how events unfolded in Ekaterinburg in 1918 and what fates befell various members of the Russian Imperial Family. Following a brief meeting at the House of Lords, elderly Viscount Tremayne invites Baron Willis to his remote Cornish home to share his view of events. As dashing Captain Tremayne, he was ordered by King George V and Prime Minister, Lloyd George, and to secure safe passage for Tsar Nicholas II and his family as revolution swept through Russia. Jeremy Clyde and Maurice Denham star as the young and old Tremayne.

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