Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea - Episode 1

Dramatisation by Lin Coghlan of Joan Aiken's classic children's adventure. Young Simon comes to 18th-century London to study painting and finds himself caught up in wicked Hanoverian plots to overthrow the King. Duke ...... John Rowe Duchess ...... Sheila Reid Dido ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin Simon ...... Joe Dempsie Cobbe/Nobby/Soldier ...... Ben Crowe Mrs C ...... Annabelle Dowler Justin ...... Sam Pamphilon Buckle/Bloke ...... Nigel Hastings Dr F/Man ...... Bruce Alexander Gus/Nose ...... Joseph Cohen Cole Jabwing/Fothers ...... Piers Wehner Mr T/Hawker ...... Rhys Jennings Mrs T/Woman 2 ...... Tessa Nicholson Sophie ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan Woman ...... Kate Layden Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.