麻豆社

To help offset his enormous debts, Beaumarchais is set a task by Louis XV.

But it involves a very unusual woman...

Starring Henry Goodman.

Craig Warner's comedy set in 18th-century France. The battles of Beaumarchais who is anxious to climb the ladder of French nobility...

Beaumarchais .... Henry Goodman
Lia de Beaumont .... Bill Nighy
Louis XV .... Ronald Pickup
Le Counte d'Artois .... Sean Baker
Figaro .... Sean Baker
Lord Rochford .... David Timson

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in November 1996.