
Vivat Rex: Volume 2
Landmark drama from the BBC Radio Archive
Author: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Martin Jenkins
Narrator: Full Cast, Richard Burton
Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
Published: 04/16/2015
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Radio, Drama
Synopsis
Vivat Rex is the landmark drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Over the course of 26 instalments, each one narrated by Richard Burton with a full cast, the fortunes of the English Crown are followed through 225 years of British history, from Edward II’s accession in 1307 to the birth of Elizabeth I.
Each drama is adapted by Martin Jenkins from the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe and their Elizabethan contemporaries.This second volume features the final 13 instalments, beginning with Martin Jarvis as Henry V and concluding with the birth of Elizabeth I. Vivat Rex includes a stirring musical score by Christopher Whelen.