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Troilus And Cressida BBC

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Drama on 3: Troilus and Cressida

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Sun 30th Oct 2005, 19:00 on BBC Radio 3

Set during the Trojan War, Shakespeare's powerful drama about a doomed love and the futility of war is also an extraordinarily topical enquiry into ethics, values and the slippery nature of truth.

This is the first radio production for more than 20 years.

Director:.........Marc Beeby

Troilus:............Paterson Joseph

Pandarus:.........Derek Griffiths

Aeneas:...........Jimmy Akinqbola

Cressida:.........Nikki Amuka-Bird

Agamemnon:.........Gerard McDermott

Menelaus:.......John Cummins

Nestor:..........John Rowe

Ajax:........Harry Myers

Thersites:..........Toby Jones

Achilles:........Neil Dudgeon

Patroclus:.........Jim Sturgess

Ulysses:.........Paul Rhys

Diomedes:.........Jonathan Keeble

Helen:........Colleen Prendergast

Hector:.......Ray Fearon

Paris:.........Chu Omambala

Cassandra:.......Gbemisola Ikumelo

Priam:.........Burt Caesar

Andromache:........Ndidi Ama

In the second scene of this epic play, Cressida, left alone, which is the only time any of the characters ever utter their true thoughts, sets the mood for the whole drama when she says "Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

    No date given · 1 h 01 min

  2. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

    No date given · 54 min

  3. Troilus And Cressida

    No date given · 34 min

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