BBC R4 - Afternoon Play - The Elizabethan Beauty Law - Historical Drama - 96 kbp
Afternoon Play: The Elizabethan Beauty Law - by Lizzie Hopley - BBC Radio 4 - Wawona
Length: 43:52
A radio comedy by Lizzie Hopley: England 1587, a year before the Spanish Armada. Nervous new bride Florence Whitsheet is terrified that she won't live up to her husband's idealised image of her and has prepared for the wedding night. But when the love-blind (and highly superstitious) Alistair discovers a hairpiece, padding, face-paint and built-up shoes, he collapses in shock, and the commotion results in her arrest. The devastated Flo is visited in jail by the Queen's Secretary, Lord Burghley, where she learns of a newly-enacted law which states that any woman who "traps" a man of the realm into marriage via the "sorcery" of self-embellishment will be tried under the Witchcraft Act and if found guilty, sentenced to death. Based on historical background. Don't miss Annette Badland as the queen, and the entirely charming and always wonderful Amanda Root as her equal in wit and fortitude, Florence.
Cast:
Burghley/Landlord ...... John Rowe Alistair ...... Tom Burke Florence ...... Amanda Root Albery/Sergeant ...... Toby Longworth Wells ...... Alan Cox Hollis ...... Lisa Moore Elizabeth ...... Annette Badland Type : mpeg
Bitrate : 96 kbps
Mode : joint stereo
Frequency : 44100 Hz
Encoder : unknown
Length: 43:52
A radio comedy by Lizzie Hopley: England 1587, a year before the Spanish Armada. Nervous new bride Florence Whitsheet is terrified that she won't live up to her husband's idealised image of her and has prepared for the wedding night. But when the love-blind (and highly superstitious) Alistair discovers a hairpiece, padding, face-paint and built-up shoes, he collapses in shock, and the commotion results in her arrest. The devastated Flo is visited in jail by the Queen's Secretary, Lord Burghley, where she learns of a newly-enacted law which states that any woman who "traps" a man of the realm into marriage via the "sorcery" of self-embellishment will be tried under the Witchcraft Act and if found guilty, sentenced to death. Based on historical background. Don't miss Annette Badland as the queen, and the entirely charming and always wonderful Amanda Root as her equal in wit and fortitude, Florence.
Cast:
Burghley/Landlord ...... John Rowe Alistair ...... Tom Burke Florence ...... Amanda Root Albery/Sergeant ...... Toby Longworth Wells ...... Alan Cox Hollis ...... Lisa Moore Elizabeth ...... Annette Badland Type : mpeg
Bitrate : 96 kbps
Mode : joint stereo
Frequency : 44100 Hz
Encoder : unknown
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