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1. Clipped Wings

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Based on letters and diaries, a portrait of the extraordinary Queen's life, marriage and achievements. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

A portrait of Victoria's younger life and the happy years of her marriage, reveals some of the remarkable and long-lasting achievements of this extraordinary queen.

Imogen Stubbs stars as Victoria.

Written in ten parts by Juliet Ace, based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria.

Beginning with reflections of the young Victoria as she turns 16.

Victoria ........ Imogen Stubbs
Duchess of Kent ........ Anna Massey
Prince Albert ........ Adrian Lukis
Baroness Lehzen ........ Selina Cadell
Sir John Conroy ........ John Rowe.
Melbourne ........ Christopher Cazenove
WAG ........ Andrew Wincott
William IV ........ Terence Edmond
Prince of Wales Bertie ........ Thomas Arnold
Princess Vicky ........ Clare Corbett
Prince of Wales Bertie as a child ........ George Allonby

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 9 May 202302:15
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