
Edward II - The Greatest Traitor
By Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. With Sam Troughton as Edward II, Trystan Gravelle as Roger Mortimer and Hattie Morahan as Queen Isabella.
Edward the Second - The Greatest Traitor
by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. While Edward's power is prey to his passions, his queen, Isabella, and his most powerful ally, Roger Mortimer, find a passion of their own.
Cast
Edward the Second ..... Sam Troughton
Isabella ..... Hattie Morahan
Mortimer ..... Trystan Gravelle
Prince Edward ..... Joseph Samrai
Despenser ..... Jonathan Forbes
Other parts were played by Sean Baker, Simon Bubb, James Lailey, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, and Alun Raglan .
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole
Philip Jackson, Sam Troughton and Patrick Kennedy take the roles of Edward the First, Edward the Second and Richard the Second in a new series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty.
These plays tell the story of the birth of a new Europe after the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of belief, above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which are so familiar to us now were new to an age which had no template for domination on this scale.
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Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Jun 2011 15:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM
- Sat 11 Jun 2011 21:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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