The Buckingham Palace Connection

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The Buckingham Palace Connection: 5. The Secret of the Forest

5. The Secret of the Forest

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Buckingham Palace Connection, 5. The Secret of the Forest

With the rescue plan imminent, can the Tsar and Imperial Royal family be saved?

Tremayne and Kasakov prepare for their assault. Can the Tsar and his family be saved from the Bolsheviks.? Stars Maurice Denham.

Ekaterinburg, 1918: Captain Tremayne has had to bring forward his attempt to rescue the Tsar and the Imperial Royal family from the Bolsheviks.

He and Kasakov prepare for the assault on the House of Special Purpose.

Starring Maurice Denham, Jeremy Clyde and Sean Barrett.  

Dramatised by Ted Willis from his own novel, first published in 1980.

Himself .... Ted Willis
Lord Tremayne .... Maurice Denham
Captain Tremayne .... Jeremy Clyde
Lady Tremayne .... Joyce Carey
Meg .... Elizabeth Proud
Major Story .... Bob Sherman
Colonel Kasakov .... Sean Barrett
Nikolai Dukov .... Haydn Wood
Mogilov .... Nicholas Courtney
Gromyko …. Cyril Shaps
Klaus .... John Rye
Kelly .... John Livesey
Samarin .... James Windsor
Sister Lyudmilla .... Pauline Letts
Sister Elizabieta .... Jane Knowles
Voytek .... David McAllister
The Corporal .... John Webb

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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