Episodes
| Series | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO3 | 20040606 | With MICHAEL PENNINGTON, MICHAEL MALONEY, EMMA HAMILTON and DAVID BURKE. Alice, the young wife of well-to-do Arden has fallen in love with Mosby, a one-time butcher with social aspirations. The solution is to murder Arden. This is the first English murder thriller written by an unknown contemporary of Shakespeare (though he himself may have provided an authorial hand). It was based on true events of the period and mixes high drama with low comedy as class-envy, greed and passion drive the story to its tragic conclusion despite many humorous pitfalls on the way. Arden, a merchant....MICHAEL PENNINGTON Franklin, his friend....DAVID BURKE Alice, his wife....Emily Hamilton Michael, their servant....GILES FAGAN Mosby, a steward....MICHAEL MALONEY Susan, his sister....Victoria Woodward Black Will, a rogue....ANTHONY JACKSON George Shakebag, another rogue....Matthew Morgan Greene, a smallholder....MARK STRAKER Clarke, a painter....SIMON TREVES Bradshaw/Lord Cheiny....STEVE HODSON Mayor/Ferryman/Prentice....SION PROBERT Adapted and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Arden, a merchant - MICHAEL PENNINGTON Franklin, his friend - DAVID BURKE Alice, his wife - Emily Hamilton Michael, their servant - GILES FAGAN Mosby, a steward - MICHAEL MALONEY Susan, his sister - Victoria Woodward Black Will, a rogue - ANTHONY JACKSON George Shakebag, another rogue - Matthew Morgan Greene, a smallholder - MARK STRAKER Clarke, a painter - SIMON TREVES Bradshaw/Lord Cheiny - STEVE HODSON Mayor/Ferryman/Prentice - SION PROBERT | |
| DO3 | 20190120 | 20210117 (R3) | In 1551 in Tudor England, Alice and her lover Mosby conspire with hired killers to murder Alice's husband Arden. This anonymous play is the first example of a brutal true crime story on the English stage and resonates with our contemporary fascination with all things 'noir'. Based closely on Holinshed's detailed account of the murder, it was first published in 1592. Arden - Ewan Bailey Alice - Amaka Okafor Mosby - Samuel James Michael - Tom Forrister Greene - Simon Ludders Franklin - Philip Fox Black Will - Ben Crowe Shakebag - Sion Pritchard Clarke - Ryan Whittle Lord Cheiny - John Telfer Bradshaw - John Norton Susan - Olivia Marcus Original music composed by Lucy Rivers Musicians: James Ifan, Hannah McPake, Dan Messore, Mark O'Connor, Elin Phillips, Lucy Rivers & Aidan Thorne Adapted and directed by Alison Hindell BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 3 True crime in Tudor England as Alice and her lover Mosby plot to murder her husband Arden. |