Classic Serial - The Invasion - Arab Chronicles of the First Crusade - Episode 1

By Jonathan Myerson. The story of the First Crusade, re-imagined from the Arab point of view, using the chronicles of the period. Small-time merchant Firuz's life is changed when his land is invaded by a rag-tag army of incomprehensible, odorous and ill-disciplined warriors from the West, fuelled by religious fanaticism. Firuz ...... Andrew Lincoln The Stitch ...... Neil Dudgeon Rihab ...... Helen Schlesinger Yaghi-Siyan ...... Nicholas Woodeson Tatikios ...... Peter Polycarpou Nadirah ...... Rachel Atkins Suleima ...... Jill Cardo Anna ...... Janice Acquah Peter ...... Chris Pavlo Qilij ...... Gunnar Cauthery Shams Al-Dawla ...... Dan Starkey Other parts played by Malcolm Tierney, Stephen Critchlow and Robert Lonsdale Directed by Jonquil Panting.