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"Eternity's a terrible thought - I mean where's it going to end?" As part of the Celebrating Stoppard season, a collection of Stoppard plays, Mathew Baynton, Andrew Buchan and Toby Jones star in the play that made Sir Tom Stoppard's reputation when it first appeared as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. Two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet can only watch from the wings as major events unfold around them. Rosencrantz ..... Mathew Baynton Guildenstern ..... Andrew Buchan The Player ..... Toby Jones Tragedian ..... Sam Dale Alfred ..... Ronny Jhutti Ophelia ..... Sarah Ovens Polonius ..... Michael Bertenshaw Hamlet ..... Parth Thakerar Claudius ..... Don Gilet Gertrude ..... Clare Corbett Music arranged and performed by Clare Salaman, Philip Hopkins and Amelia Shakespeare from The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments Director: Emma Harding First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.