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Pandaemonium

Drama celebrating the volatile relationship between poets Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, played out against the background of the French Revolution.

Ebullient drama celebrating the volatile relationship between poets Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth, played out against the background of the French Revolution. As Coleridge, Wordsworth and Lord Byron await the news of who will be Great Britain's new poet laureate in 1816, Coleridge finds himself thinking back to 1795, when he and Wordsworth were two struggling writers involved in radical politics.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 25 Sep 201623:05
BBC Four

Credits

Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLinus Roache
William WordsworthJohn Hannah
Sara ColeridgeSamantha Morton
Dorothy WordsworthEmily Woof
Mary WordsworthEmma Fielding
John ThelwallAndy Serkis
Robert SoutheySamuel West
WalshMichael N Harbour
Tom PooleWilliam Scott-Masson
Dr GillmanClive Merrison
Humphry DavyDexter Fletcher
Lord ByronGuy Lankester
Rev HollandJohn Standing
Edith SoutheyAndrea Lowe
Miss HollandJacqueline Defferary
Andrew CrosseAndy de la Tour
JonesJohn Kane
DirectorJulien Temple
ProducerNick O'Hagan
WriterFrank Cottrell-Boyce

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Oct 200701:10
    BBC Two except East & Yorkshire
  • Sun 25 Sep 201623:05
    BBC Four

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