Lamentation: Shardlake, Book 6 (Unabridged)

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  Duration: 2 hours 30 mins approx.

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  Shardlake: Revelation: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

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  Spring, 1543. London's streets are filled with preachers; strange signs and portents are seen everywhere; and young men, maddened by differing interpretations of the Bible, are drawn into dangerous fundamentalism.
  
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  Shardlake: Heartstone: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

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  Though no soldier, Matthew Shardlake also finds himself dispatched there. Queen Catherine Parr has asked him to take on a case involving the 'monstrous wrongs' allegedly committed by cloth merchant Sir Nicholas Hobbey against his young ward, Hugh Curteys.
  
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  Cast
  Shardlake……………………Justin Salinger
  Barak……………………Bryan Dick
  Queen Catherine……………………Emily Wachter
  Ellen Fettiplace……………………Kath Weare
  Dyrick/Officer/Sailor 2……………………Philip Bretherton
  Goodryke/Landlord/Avery/Priddis/Villager……………………Clive Hayward
  Sir Richard Rich……………………Nicholas Murchie
  George Leacon……………………Finn den Hertog
  Sir Nicholas Hobbey……………………David Seddon
  Hugh Curteys……………………Will Howard
  Abigail Hobbey/Sally……………………Isabella Inchbald
  David Hobbey/Keeper Shawms/Sailor 1……………………Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
  Paulet/Reverend Seckford/Warner……………………Neil McCaul
  Phillip West……………………Chris Pavlo
  Feaveryear/Sailor/Pelham……………………Gary Duncan
  Bess Calfhill……………………Kath Weare
  Sir Richard Rich……………………Nicholas Murchie
  
  Dramatised by Colin MacDonald
  Produced by Kirsteen Cameron
  Directed by David Jackson Young