Afternoon Play - Black Hearts in Battersea - Episode 2

Dramatisation by Lin Coghlan of Joan Aiken's classic children's adventure. To save the King from Hanoverian plotters, Simon and Sophie must first suffer shipwreck, attacks by wolves and a narrow escape from an exploding hot air balloon. Duke ...... John Rowe Duchess ...... Sheila Reid Dido ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin Simon ...... Joe Dempsie Cobbe/Captain M ...... Ben Crowe Mrs C ...... Annabelle Dowler Justin ...... Sam Pamphilon Buckle ...... Nigel Hastings Dr F/King J ...... Bruce Alexander Gus/Stall Holder ...... Joseph Cohen Cole Jabwing ...... Piers Wehner Mr T/Bird ...... Rhys Jennings Mrs T ...... Tessa Nicholson Sophie ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan Coachman/Mogg ...... John Biggins Field ...... Ewan Hooper Mrs B ...... Kate Layden.