Woman's Hour Drama - The Pillow Book, series 2 - Fire - Episode 2

By Robert Forrest. Second series inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, the 10th-century Japanese poet and lady-in-waiting to the Empress Teishi. Yukinari has been beaten and left for dead in a blacksmith's bothy. Someone has been sending him writings which speak of The Day of Fire, and an Incorruptible Lord - a Lord Yukinari believes may now be in the Palace itself. Shonagon ...... Ruth Gemmell Yukinari ...... Mark Bazeley Tadanobu ...... Liam Brennan Masamitsu ...... Ralph Riach.