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Vivat Rex: Volume 2
- Landmark drama from the BBC Radio Archive
- Narrated by: full cast, Richard Burton
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Each drama is adapted by Martin Jenkins from the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their Elizabethan contemporaries.This second volume features the final 13 instalments, beginning with Martin Jarvis as Henry V and concluding with the birth of Elizabeth I. Vivat Rex includes a stirring musical score by Christopher Whelen.
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