Woman's Hour Drama - The Dig - Episode 2

John Preston's account of a major archaeological excavation at Sutton Hoo in 1939. Peggy has found gold. Basil Brown explains how he first found traces of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship. Peggy Piggott ...... Anna Madeley Stuart Piggott ...... Bertie Carvel Rory Lomax ...... Alex Wyndham Charles Phillips ...... Stephen Critchlow Robert Pretty ...... Ryan Watson Edith Pretty ...... Joan Walker Basil Brown ...... Sam Dale Reid Moir ...... Nyasha Hatendi Will/Grately/Vuilamy ...... Dan Starkey Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.