Royce Ryton Crown Matrimonial

SANWAL

(5 stars; 1 reviews)

Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 30th Oct 1976, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM West End Winners Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and Peter Barkworth in Crown Matrimonial by Royce Ryton with Martin Jarvis, Jane Wenham and Rachel Kempson. The action of the play takes place in Queen Mary's private drawing-room at Marlborough House, London, in 1936. She is still Britain's only Queen, for her eldest son. King Edward VIII, has as yet no wife. 'It was strongly and skilfully cast. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies had just the right touch of Imperial Germany in her sympathetic playing of Queen Mary, stiff-backed, compassionate, and with an over-riding sense of duty. Peter Barkworth and Martin Jarvis echoed believably the tones of Edward VIII and his brother who became George VI.' (Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian)   Queen Mary: Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Mabell, Countess of Airlie: Rachel Kempson The Hon Margaret Wyndham: Hilda Schroder King Edward VIII, David: Peter Barkworth The Princess Royal, Mary: Rosalind Shanks The Duchess of Gloucester: Alice Deborah Paige Walter Monckton, KC: Peter Howell The Duchess of York Elizabeth: Jane Wenham The Duke of York Bertie: Martin Jarvis   Queen's Page:Anthony Smee Narrator: Alvar Lidell Produced/Director: Ian Cotterell

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.