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It's London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe, a young writer, is fatally stabbed in a Deptford lodging house because of a disagreement over the bill. There's an investigation, the witnesses are interrogated, and the suspect walks free. The authorities find that Marlowe was the aggressor and was killed in self-defence. History says it was just a drunken quarrel, nothing more. But Charles Nicholl thinks it was murder, and an unsolved murder never grows old. In Episode 2, Nicholl explores the shadow world of the Elizabethan Secret Service - its masters, servants and victims - in his search to discover what happened in that little room in Deptford. Christopher Marlowe . . . . . Chris Lew Kum Hoi Robert Poley . . . . . Burn Gorman Thomas Phelippes . . . . . Carl Prekopp Francis Walsingham . . . . . Emilio Doorgasingh Robert Cecil . . . . . John Heffernan Thomas Watson . . . . . Matthew Durkan Anthony Babington . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera Thomas Hariot . . . . . Neil McCaul Richard Topcliffe . . . . . Michael Begley William Bradley . . . . . Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Mary Queen of Scots . . . . . Ruth Everett Maid . . . . . Alexandra Hannant Dramatised by Mike Walker, based on The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl Sound by Peter Ringrose Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko
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