Perucci's Escapement
Writer: Guy MeredithDirected by Cherry Cookson
First broadcast: Tue 10th Mar 1992
BBC Radio 3
Giacomo Perucci . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenneth Cranham
Count dasperghi . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Finlay
Bamborough . . . . . . . . . . . . Clive Francis
Sternwell . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Glover
Ludd the Boatman . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Tudor Barnes
Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelley Thompson
Harwick . . . . . . . . . . . . Keith Drinkel
Malgrave/Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean Arnold
Lord Burleigh . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Penry Jones
Maggie . . . . . . . . . . . . Joanna Wake
Guy Meredith's comedy-drama is set in Elizabethan England. A renowned Italian clockmaker becomes a pawn in the religious struggle between people who are driven by greed and bloodlust.
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