Treason

Synopsis: Episode 5 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.
This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and the anonymous Woodstock, stars Derek Jacobi as Richard II and Robert Hardy as Bolingbroke.
With Richard Burton as narrator. The music for the series is composed by Christopher Whelen and played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra.
Series: Vivat Rex
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Recording date: 1 Mar 1977
Transmission details: 13 Mar 1977 at 21:03 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)
Duration: 55 mins

History: VIVAT REX was presented by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
Each episode of the broadcast was repeated on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesdays at 15:05.
Stills: A large portrait of Burton in front of the microphone can be found in Radio Times, 12-18 February 1977, pp. 61-62.
Textual information: To enable listeners to follow the episodes more easily, a booklet accompanying the series was published, written by Robert Cushman.
Reviews: On Burton’s performance see David Wade, ‘Voices’, Radio Times, 19 February 1977, p. 10.
On a review of the first 6 episodes and Martin Jenkins’s view of the production see Wilfred De’ Ath’s ‘Kings complex’ in Radio Times, 26 March-1 April 1977, p. 66.

Derek Jacobi	King Richard II
Maureen O’Brien	Queen Isabel
Michael Redgrave	John of Gaunt
Robert Hardy	Bolingbroke
Barbara Jefford	Duchess of Gloucester
Alan Dudley
Christopher Good	Green
Christopher Neame	Ghost of Edward I
Clifford Rose	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
Don Henderson	Thomas Mowbray
Jeffrey Segal	Cheyney
Keith Michell
Malcolm Reid	Duke of Aumerle
Michael Goldie	Murderer (1)
Michael Goldie	Lord Marshal
Nigel Lambert	Bushy
Nigel Stock
Patrick Troughton	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Paul Meier	Sir Stephen Scroope
Sion Probert	Bagot
Walter Hall	Murderer (2)
William Eedle	Lapoole

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