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Monk-cum-sleuth Brother Cadfael's plan for a hostage exchange falters when love raises its head. Stars Philip Madoc and Jonathan Tafler.
The detective monk's plan for a hostage exchange falters when love raises its head.
Starring Philip Madoc.
Ellis Peters鈥� medieval thriller featuring Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael.
Dramatised by Bert Coules.
It鈥檚 1141. Beyond the walls of Shrewsbury鈥檚 Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, civil war rages.
The Deputy Sheriff of Shropshire returns from the Battle of Lincoln with disastrous news that King Stephen has been captured. The Sheriff himself has been kidnapped by the Welsh, and England鈥檚 very future is uncertain.
Cadfael 鈥�. Philip Madoc
Hugh Beringar 鈥�. Jonathan Tafler
Elis 鈥�. Jason Hughes
Melicent 鈥�. Kate Odey
Prince Owain 鈥�. Sion Probert
Radulfus 鈥�. Trevor Peacock
Cristina 鈥�. Siobahn Flynn
Eliud 鈥�. Mark Lewis Jones
Edmund/Ithel 鈥�. Shaun Prendergast
Maurice 鈥�. Douglas Blackwell
Narrator 鈥�. Michael Kitchen
Music by Peter Salem.
Producer: Neil Cargill.
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in September 1995.
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