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CadfaelDead Man's Ransom
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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’ medieval thriller featuring Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael.

Dramatised by Bert Coules.

It’s 1141. Beyond the walls of Shrewsbury’s 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’s very future is uncertain.

Cadfael …. Philip Madoc
Hugh Beringar …. Jonathan Tafler
Elis …. Jason Hughes
Melicent …. Kate Odey
Prince Owain …. Sion Probert
Radulfus …. Trevor Peacock
Cristina …. Siobahn Flynn
Eliud …. Mark Lewis Jones
Edmund/Ithel …. Shaun Prendergast
Maurice …. Douglas Blackwell
Narrator …. Michael Kitchen

Music by Peter Salem.

Producer: Neil Cargill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1995.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Jan 202501:00
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