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3. The Perplex'd Plot of the Perilous Plague

Episode 3 of 4

As London is ravaged by plague - the playwright spy is on the case of a double-crossing. Stars Dominic Jephcott.

Can the hub of government survive the plague?

As London is ravaged by an epidemic - the playwright spy is on the case of a double-crossing.

Amid the splendour and squalor of Elizabethan London - scholar, playwright and government spy, Christopher Marlowe is assigned to investigate a number of baffling mysteries and perplexing intrigues...

Starring Dominic Jephcott and Bill Wallis.

Series of historical comedy mysteries by Ged Parsons.

Christopher Marlowe ....... Dominic Jephcott
Bartholomew Ratsbane ....... Bill Wallis
Sir Francis Walsingham ....... Paul Brooke
Beaumont ....... Garard Green
Faversham ....... Ronald Herdman
Ripley ....... Richard Bonneville
Dr Valentine ....... Hugh Dennis

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1993.

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