Victims

Synopsis: Episode 7 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reigns of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.
This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1, as well as The Famous Victories of Henry V by Anonymous. Derek Jacobi plays Richard and Martin Jarvis is Prince Hal. 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: 13 Jan 1977
Transmission details: 27 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
Anthony Quayle	Sir John Falstaff
David Graham	Earl of Westmoreland
Geoffrey Collins	Sir Piers Exton
Martin Jarvis	Prince Henry (Hal)
Michael Goldie	Servant to Hotspur (Servant)
Michael Goldie	Groom
Nigel Anthony	Poins
Patrick Troughton	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Penelope Lee	Lady Percy
Peter Howell (2)	Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Robert Harris	Lord Chief Justice
Robert Powell	Henry Percy (Hotspur)
Rod Beacham	Keeper of the prison at Pomfret
Rod Beacham	Peto
Timothy Bateson	Bardolph
Timothy West	Bishop of Carlisle
Walter Hall	Servant
Walter Hall	Traveller

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