Drama on 3 - Living with Princes

By Stephen Wakelam. In 1588, the essayist and landowner Michel de Montaigne, set out on a journey round the troubled kingdom of France. He was on a mission - to reconcile the Valois King Henri the Third, a Catholic, with his likely successor, the Bourbon King of Navarre, a Protestant. It's high stakes: intensified Civil War the consequence of failure. Michel de Montaigne ..... Roger Allam Peslier ..... James Norton Catherine de Medici ..... Jane Lapotaire Henri Navarre ..... Elliot Levey Henri Valois ..... Sam Dale Francoise de Montaigne ..... Sally Orrock Marie de Gournay ..... Leah Brotherhead Sergeant Soumillon ..... Adeel Akhtar Captain Guyon ..... Lloyd Thomas Courtier ..... Henry Devas Directed by Jeremy Mortimer Stephen Wakelam is a playwright, working first mainly in TV and now in radio. His TV work includes over twenty original films and plays, drama documentaries and adaptations. Amongst his recent radio plays are: the biographical What I Think of My Husband about the second Mrs Thomas Hardy (BBC Radio 4); The Pattern of Painful Adventures about Shakespeare (Radio 3); and A Dose of Fame about E.M. Forster (Radio 4). A further three radio plays can be heard via his website: Answered Prayers with Kenneth Cranham; Two Men from Delft with Alex Jennings and Stephen Tompkinson; and The Adulteries of a Provincial Wife with Robert Glenister, Daniel Evans and Anastasia Hille. Stephen is the author of three stage plays, two at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs.