Lee, Christopher

Last Edited: 29-Dec-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
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Kicking the Habit
This Sceptred Isle -- Original Series
This Sceptred Isle -- Twentieth Century
This Sceptred Isle -- Dynasties
This Sceptred Isle -- Empire
Date
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
Broadcast R7
11-Aug-2004 to
13-Aug-2004
16-Aug-2004 to
20-Aug-2004
 The House
Timothy West, Julian Glover, Sarah Beddell, Christopher
Benjamin, David Ryle, Siobhan Redmond, Sheila Reid,
James Garbut, Ruth Gemmell, Bryan Redhead, Laurie
Macmillan, John Bull, Ken Cumberlidge, Ian Target, David
Goodge, David Macalister, Stuart Organ, Graham Blockey,
Joan Matheson, Rupert Baker, Danny Schiller, John
Fortune, Jane Booker, Ian Cuthbertson, Dennis Ramsden,
Sean Prendergast, Ray Smith, Michael Kilgarrith,
Christopher Scott, David King, Charles Simpson, Brian Miller
Produced by Pete Atkin
 29:44, 27885, S
29:14, 27416, S
29:16, 27447, S
27:20, 25636, S
25:07, 23550, S
29:21, 27517, S
29:40, 27823, S
29:29, 27649, S
Broadcast R7:
23-Aug-2004 to
30-Aug-2004
 Colvil and Soames
  1. (untitled)
  2. The Penitent
  3. The Wages of Sin
  4. Requiescant in
    Pace
  5. A Matter of
    Judgement
  6. Betrayal and
    Judgement
Christopher Benjamin, Amanda Redmond, Dudley Sutton,
Stephen Thorne, Colette O’Neill, Peter Yap, Joseph
O’Connor, Neal McCall, Christian Rodska, Beth Porter,
Dennis Hawthorne
Produced by Pete Atkin
 29:04, 27267, S
29:34, 27726, S
29:27, 27625, S
29:34, 27723, S
29:29, 27651, S
29:26, 27608, S
Broadcast R7:
31-Aug-2004 to
07-Sep-2004
 Colvil and Soames II --
Bad Apples
Christopher Benjamin, Amanda Redmond, Dudley Sutton,
Sue Jones-Davis, Sheila Reid, John Hartley, Neil Conrich,
Stuart Organ, Bryan Bowles, Tom Kotcher, Alistair McGowan,
Alphonsia Immanuel
Produced by Pete Atkin
 27:58, 26233, S
28:03, 26307, S
28:03, 26303, S
28:04, 26327, S
28:05, 26341, S
27:57, 26210, S
R4:
19-Apr-2005
 The Trial of Walter
Ralegh


 Michael York, Carolyn Seymour, Kenneth Danziger, Morgan
Sheppard, Christopher Neame, Ian Ogilvy, Orlando Seale,
Samantha Robson
Directed by Martin Jarvis
 44:17, 41531, S
27-Aug-2009 A Pattern in Shrouds
 Ian Ogilvy, Jared Harris, Alfred Molina, Kenneth Danziger,
Matthew Wolf, Shay Duffin
Directed by Martin Jarvis
 44:04, 41325, S
16-Nov-2013
 Air-Force One
 Josh Stamberg, Stacy Keach, Glenne Headly, Susan Sullivan,
Steven Weber, Nicholas Hormann, JD Cullum, Janine Barris,
Jennifer Bassey, Gordon Clapp, Anna Mathias, Matthew Wolf,
Andre Sogliuzo, John Sloan, Tracy Pattin, Daren Richardson
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
Director: Martin Jarvis
 56:58, 53299, S
08-Dec-2016
09-Dec-2016
 Abdication
  1. The King's Matter
    by Christopher Lee
  2. The Crisis of Wallis Simpson
    by Nicola Baldwin
  1. Jim Broadbent, Hugh Ross, Mark Straker, Michael Jayston,
    Kika Markham, Anthony Calf
  2. Frances Barber, Anthony Calf, Jane McKenna, Mark
    Straker, Richard Dillane, David Collings, Ben Crowe,
    Richard Atlee
Directed by Celia de Wolff
 43:56, 41100, S
43:57, 41119, S
31-Jul-2017
 Gibberish
 Gillian Bevan, Anne Reid, Nelly Harker, Miles Jupp, David Robb,
Nickolas Grace, Christine Kavanagh, Chris Pavlo
Directed by Celia de Wolff
 43:47, 40961, S
Kicking the Habit
Date
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
27-Jul-2006
 If the Boot Fits, Share It
Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres
Directed by Pete Atkin
 27:38, 25914, S
03-Aug-2007
 Long Distance Friar
Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Alan Shearman, Kenneth Danziger
Directed by Pete Atkin
 27:44, 26002, S
10-Aug-2007
 Holy Des Res
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger
Directed by Pete Atkin
 27:30, 25795, S
17-Aug-2007
 Barrow Rage
Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk
Directed by Pete Atkin
 27:25, 25718, S
24-Aug-2007
 Old Spots Before the Eyes
Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Tracey Patten, Moira Quirk,
Alan Shearman
Directed by Pete Atkin
 27:24, 25691, S
31-Aug-2007
 Nights to Remember
Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Alan Shearman
Directed by Pete Atkin
 26:46, 25104, S
13-Aug-2008
 As I Was Braying
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:35, 25867, S
20-Aug-2008
 A Woman's Place.
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:19, 32022, S
27-Aug-2008
 The Business of Miracles
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:08, 31806, S
03-Sep-2008
 Carbon Dating
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:31, 32252, S
10-Sep-2008
 Yours Sincerely
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:33, 32268, S
17-Sep-2008
 Calendar Boys
 Alfred Molina, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvls, Darren Richardson,
Rosalind Ayres, Kenneth Danziger, Moira Quirk, Alan Shearman, Matthew Wolf
Producer Jarvis and Ayres
Director Pete Atkin
 27:15, 31940, S
This Sceptred Isle
This Sceptred Isle – Original Series
Date
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
BBC R4
05-Jun-1995 to
05-Jul-1995
 Part 1 -- S01e01 to S01e23
55BC to 1087AD – The Romans to William I
  1. Land of the Druids
  2. The Invasion
  3. Caractacus the First Sung Hero
  4. Liberty or Death
  5. Life in Roman Britain
  6. The Crumbling Legacy
  7. Camelot
  8. Who Are the English?
  9. The Arrogant Saint
  10. Edwin to Whitby
  11. Ethelbald and His Woman; Offa and His Dyke
  12. The Vikings
  13. Alfred the Great
  14. The Death of Alfred
  15. Athelstan the First Sovereign
  16. The Saintly Dunstan to the Canny Canute
  17. Cnut and Edmund Ironside
  18. Goodwine the Cunning and Edward the Confessor
  19. The Battle of Stamford Bridge
  20. The Battle of Hastings
  21. The Conquest
  22. Domesday
  23. The Death of the Conqueror
 Read by Anna Massey with Paul Eddington,
Peter Yap, John Turner, Roger May
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
43:53, 41136, m
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43:06, 40407, m
from BBC R7 2005
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13:14, 12412, S
13:11, 12367, S
06-Jul-1995 to
20-Sep-1995
 Part 2 -- S01e24 to S01e43
1087 to 1327 – William II to Edward II
  1. William Rufus and the First Crusade
  2. Henry and the Scottish Kings
  3. Justice, Power and the Death of Henry
  4. Anarchy
  5. Henry Plantagenet
  6. The Law, The Church and the Coming Tragedy
  7. Becket
  8. Death in the Cathedral
  9. Penance, Rebellion and Ireland
  10. Coeur de Lion
  11. Third Crusade and Death of Lionheart
  12. Bad King John and the Loss of Normandy
  13. Magna Carta
  14. The Barons’ War
  15. Henry III
  16. Simon de Montfort
  17. A Day in the Life of Thirteenth Century England
  18. Chancery, Treasury and a 13th Century
    Wedding Brawl
  19. The Welsh Wars and the Most-Feared Weapon
  20. From the Maid of Norway to Robert the Bruce
 Read by Anna Massey with Paul Eddington,
Paul Jenkins, Roger May, John Turner,
David Timson
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
43:53, 41136, m
44:13, 41460, m
43:53, 41136, m
43:58, 41217, m
from BBC R7 2005
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13:09, 12334, S
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13:18, 12474, S
13:15, 12428, S
21-Sep-1995 to
17-Oct-1995

 Part 3 -- S01e44 to S01e62
1327 to 1547 – Edward II to Henry VIII
  1. The King’s Favourite and Bannockburn
  2. The Ghastly Execution
  3. Isabella and Mortimer
  4. Edward III and the Start of the Hundred
    Years War
  5. Crecy, Calais and the Garter
  6. The Black Death
  7. Poitiers and the Death of Edward III
  8. Richard II, Wat Tyler, and the Peasants’
    Revolt
  9. Lancaster and Bolingbroke
  10. Henry IV, Hotspur and the Stake
  11. Henry V and Agincourt
  12. Henry VI, Joan of Arc and Another Road
    to War
  13. The Wars of the Roses
  14. Richard III, Princes in the Tower and Bosworth
  15. The First Tudor King
  16. Henry VIII, Flodden and Wolsey
  17. Erasmus, Anne Boleyn and Death of Wolsey
  18. The End of the Monasteries
  19. The Auld Alliance and the Death of Henry VIII
 Read by Anna Massey, Paul Eddington,
John Hartley, Ross Livingston, David Timson
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
43:27, 40731, m
43:22, 40650, m
44:34, 41784, m
44:24, 41622, m
from BBC R7 2005
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13:18, 12479, S
13:15, 12431, S
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12:53, 12085, S
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13:15, 12426, S
13:11, 12372, S
13:10, 12351, S
13:13, 12396, S
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13:15, 12424, S
13:12, 12379, S
18-Oct-1995 to
18-Nov-1995
 Part 4 -- S01e63 to S01e80
1547 to 1660 – Edward VI to Cromwell
  1. A Decade of Rebellion, Executions and
    Common Prayer
  2. Bloody Mary
  3. The Elizabethans
  4. The Spinster, the Habsburg and Scottish
    Widow
  5. Trading, Slavery, Piracy and the Spanish
    Armada
  6. Essex, Ireland and Sturdy Beggars
  7. How a King of Scots Became King of England
  8. A Damp Squib, A Bible and Widow Thirkettle
  9. The Death of Raleigh and the First King
    of Great Britain
  10. Charles I and the Right of an Englishman
  11. The Scottish Revolt and the Seeds of Civil War
  12. The King’s on the Run
  13. The Civil War Begins
  14. The Rise and Rise of Oliver Cromwell
  15. The First Redcoats and the Battle of Naseby
  16. The Execution of Charles I
  17. The Republic of England
  18. The Lord Protector
 Read by Anna Massey, Paul Eddington,
John Hartley, Brett Usher, Ross Livingston,
Stephen Critchlow
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
44:44, 41945, m
44:34, 41784, m
45:00, 42189, m
45:00, 42189, m
from BBC R7 2005
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13:10, 12407, S
13:17, 12458, S
20-Nov-1995 to
15-Dec-1995
 Part 5 -- S01e81 to S01e100
1660 to 1702 – Charles II to James II
  1. The Beginning of the Restoration
  2. Milton and the Galileo Connection
  3. Charles II and the Return of the Monarchy
  4. The Cavalier Parliament
  5. The First Political Parties
  6. The Great Plague and the Great Fire
  7. Unholy Trinity – Church, Law and Medicine
  8. The First Winston Churchill
  9. Paradise Lost to Pilgrim’s Progress
  10. The Death of Charles II
  11. James II and the Monmouth Rebellion
  12. Judge Jeffries
  13. The 1688 Revolution
  14. William of Orange
  15. The Return to War
  16. The Kingdom of William and Mary
  17. The Origin of the Jacobites
  18. The Battle of the Boyne
  19. War in Europe
  20. The Death of King Billy and the Coming
    of Good Queen Anne
 Read by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey,
Stephen Critchlow, David Holt,
Dennis Hawthorne
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
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45:25, 42583, m
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44:19, 41541, m
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08-Jan-1996 to
15-Feb-1996
 Part 6 -- S01e101 to S01e128
1702 to 1760 – Anne to George II
  1. Highwaymen, The Rise of Marlborough
    and War with Spain
  2. 1702 – A New Queen and Why Britain
    Must Go to War
  3. The Battle of Blenheim
  4. Union with Scotland
  5. England Loses an Admiral
  6. Fruitless Carnage and the End of
    Marlborough
  7. The End of the War with France
  8. The King of England Who Couldn’t Speak
    English
  9. The Hanoverians and the Jacobite Rising
  10. The Damning of the MacGregors
  11. Robert Walpole – The First Prime Minister
  12. The New Hanoverians – Death, Gin and
    Defoe
  13. Monarchy, Cabinet and Dirty Taxes
  14. George II and Turnip Townsend
  15. Queen Caroline and the Emergence of W Pitt
  16. A Bottled Ear, Grog and Rule Britannia
  17. Patronage and the Fall of Robert Walpole
  18. War, Pragmatism and the Final Charge of
    an English Monarch
  19. Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden and God Save
    the King
  20. Hogarth, the Price of Gin and Pitt the Elder
  21. The Treaty of Serene and Potent Kings and
    Roast Beef and Plum Pudding
  22. Clive of India
  23. Death of a Prime Minister, the Sacking of Pitt
    and a New Calendar
  24. The Black Hole of Calcutta, Minorca and the
    Seven Years War
  25. Pitt’s Militia, the Plan to Invade Canada and
    an Act of Marriage
  26. The First World War
  27. India and the Death of George II 
  28. The End of Pitt the Elder and the First Canal
 Read by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey,
Dennis Hawthorne, Brett Usher,
Patience Tomlinson, Keith Drinkle
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
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16-Feb-1996 to
26-Mar-1996
 Part 7 -- S01e129 To S01e148
1760 to 1792 – George III to the French Revolution
  1. The End of the Seven Years War
  2. Grenville is PM and How Boswell Met Johnson
  3. Infant Poverty and the North Briton
  4. Rockingham, the Stamp Act, Hargreaves and
    Jenny
  5. Goldsmith and Sterne and 18th Century Letters
  6. Edinburgh New Town
  7. Captain Cook
  8. Window Taxes and Highway Robbery
  9. Watt, Arkwright and the Industrial Revolution
  10. Lord North and the Boston Massacre
  11. Warren Hastings and Who Owns India?
  12. The Boston Tea Party
  13. The American War of Independence
  14. Jefferson and the Fourth of July
  15. Saratoga
  16. Yorktown
  17. The End of Lord North
  18. Irish Victims of the American Revolution
  19. The First Madness of King George
  20. The French Revolution and Tom Paine’s
    Rights of Man
 Read by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey,
Keith Drinkle, Kim Wall, Jonathan Adams
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
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27-Mar-1996 to
29-Apr-1996
 Part 8 -- S01e149 to S01e172
1792 to 1837 – War with France to William IV
  1. Britain Once More at War with France
  2. Mutiny in the Royal Navy
  3. Nelson, the Nile and the First Income Tax
  4. The Irish Rebellion and Union
  5. Pitt Goes and Nelson Turns a Blind Eye
  6. Prime Minister in Exile
  7. Trafalgar
  8. At War with Napoleon
  9. The Ministry of all the Talents and the
    Death of Fox
  10. The Peninsula War
  11. The War of 1812
  12. Napoleon is Met at Waterloo
  13. Peterloo and the Death of George III
  14. Cato Street, Liverpool and the Legacy of Pitt
  15. George IV and Caroline of Brunswick
  16. Suicide of Castlereagh
  17. Peel and Criminal Reform
  18. Canning and the End of 18th Century Politics
  19. Death of Canning and Wellington in
    Downing Street
  20. Wellington, Ireland and the Peelers
  21. The Death of King George IV and the
    Reform Act
  22. Poor Laws
  23. The Tolpuddle Martyrs
  24. Melbourne and the Death of William IV
 Read by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey,
David Holt, Dennis Hawthorne
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
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30-Apr-1996 to
24-May-1996
 Part 9 -- S01e173 to S01e191
1837 – 1861 – Victoria and Albert
  1. Queen Victoria and the Chartists
  2. The Bedchamber Crisis
  3. Opium and Afghan Wars
  4. Queen Victoria and Dear Albert
  5. Peel the Prime Minister and the Corn Laws
  6. The Coming of Disraeli and the Death of Peel
  7. The Whig Government
  8. The Great Exhibition
  9. The Crimean War
  10. The Charge of the Light Brigade
  11. Florence Nightingale
  12. Church and State
  13. Palmerston
  14. The Indian Mutiny
  15. Gladstone’s First Budget
  16. The Arrow War
  17. Darwin
  18. The Reform Bill
  19. The Death of Prince Albert
 Read by Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey,
Dennis Hawthorne, Patrick Rhinehart,
Brett Usher
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from cassettes?
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27-May-1996 to
28-Jun-1996
 Part 10 -- S01e192 to S01e216
1861 – 1901 –Victoria to Edward VII
  1. After Albert
  2. The Great Migrations and the
    Colonies
  3. Dickens and Poverty
  4. The Rise of Bismarck and the Death of
    Palmerston
  5. 1867 – Disraeli and Parliamentary Reform
  6. Disraeli and the Origin of Two Nations
  7. The Irish Church and Constitutional Crisis
  8. The Cutty Sark, Dickens, Education and
    Stanley
  9. A Question of Monarchy
  10. How Britain Bought the Suez Canal
  11. Gladstone and the War in Bosnia
  12. Victoria Becomes Empress of India
  13. Gladstone Returns
  14. Death of Disraeli
  15. The First Boer War
  16. Ireland and the Phoenix Park Murders
  17. General Gordon Dies at Khartoum
  18. Salisbury Becomes Prime Minister
  19. Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
  20. Keir Hardie and the Birth of the Labour
    Party
  21. The Death of Gladstone
  22. Ombdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking
  23. The Boer War Turns the Century
  24. The Death of Victoria and the Dream of
    Gerontius
  25. 2000 Years of History
 Read by Anna Massey, Brett Usher,
Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from cassettes?
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This Sceptred Isle – The Twentieth Century
Date Title Cast Parameters
30-Aug-1999 to
24-Sep-1999
 Part 2-1 S02e01 to S02e20 1901-1926
  1. 1901: A New King, A New Century
  2. 1902: South Africa, Balfour and Education
  3. 1903: Naval Buildup, Free Trade and Empire
  4. 1904: Ships, Cars, Conurbation, Churchill
    Crosses the Floor
  5. 1905: Rebellion in Russia and Balfour Resigns
  6. 1906: Cornflakes, Traffic and the Moroccan
    Question
  7. 1907: Women’s Rights, Religious Discrimination
    and Military Reform
  8. 1908: Asquith, Pensions and the Balkans
  9. 1909: The Royal Navy and Trouble Brewing
    in the House of Lords
  10. 1910: King George V
  11. 1911: Constitutional Confrontation and
    the Agadir Crisis
  12. 1912: The Titanic, Home Rule and the
    Marconi Affair
  13. 1913: Ireland, Emily Davison and the Tango
  14. 1914: The UVF and the Outbreak of War
  15. 1915: The Great War
  16. 1919: The Origins of World War Two
  17. 1920s: Russia and Ireland
  18. 1922-23: Lloyd George Out, Baldwin In
  19. 1924: The First Labour PM and the Zinoviev
    Letter
  20. 1925-26: Churchill’s First Budget and the
    General Strike
 Read by Anna Massey,
with Robert Powell
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from CDs
1901-1919
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27-Sep-1999 to
22-Oct-1999
 Part 2-2 S02e21 to s02e040 1927-1947
  1. 1927-28: Enter Hitler and the Rise of Motoring
  2. 1929: Red Buses and the Wall Street Crash
  3. 1930: European Union and India
  4. 1931: National Government and Naval Mutiny
  5. 1932: The King and the Dominions
  6. 1933: The Chancellor of Germany
  7. 1934: The Night of the Long knives and the
    Long March
  8. 1935: MacDonald Resigns and Hitler Rearms
  9. 1936: Edward VIII and Unemployment
  10. 1937: A Coronation as War Looms
  11. 1938: Anschluss and the Munich Agreement
  12. 1939: The Approach of War
  13. 1940: Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, and the
    Evacuation
  14. 1941: Morale, Propaganda, and the USA
  15. 1942: The Atlantic Charter, India and Women
  16. 1943: The Turning of the Tide and the
    Beveridge Report
  17. 1944: D-Day, Education and the Birth of the UN
  18. 1945: The End of the War and a Labour Landslide
  19. 1946: Shortages, the National Health Bill and
    the UN Meet
  20. 1947: A Harsh Winter and Independence for India
 Read by Anna Massey,
with Robert Powell
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from CDs
1919-1939
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25-Oct-1999 to
05-Nov-1999
 Part 2-3 S02e41 to s02e050 1948-1957
  1. 1948: BR, the NHS and the Berlin Airlift
  2. 1949: The Republic of Ireland, the Farthing
    and NATO
  3. 1950: War in Korea and the European Debate
  4. 1951: The Return of Churchill
  5. 1952: The Death of George VI
  6. 1953: The New Elizabethan Age
  7. 1954: The Four-Minute Mile, the H-Bomb
    and Eden’s Frustration
  8. 1955: The Warsaw Pact and the Departure
    of Churchill
  9. 1956: The Suez Crisis
  10. 1957: Harold Macmillan Becomes PM and
    a Dog Goes into Space
 Read by Anna Massey,
with Robert Powell, Patience Tomlinson
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from CDs
1939-1959
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08-Nov-1999 to
03-Dec-1999
 Part 2-4 S02e51 to s02e070 1958-1977
  1. 1958: CND, Cyprus and the End of National
    Service
  2. 1959: Cuba, Cyprus and the Russians Reach
    the Moon
  3. 1960: The Wind of Change
  4. 1961: The Bay of Pigs and the Building of
    the Berlin Wall
  5. 1962: TW3, Death of Marilyn Monroe, and
    the Cuban Missile Crisis
  6. 1963: Beeching, Profumo and Martin
    Luther King’s Dream
  7. 1964: Ian Smith, Harold Wilson and Vietnam
  8. 1965: The Death of Churchill, Rolling
    Thunder and UDI
  9. 1966: Another Labour Victory
  10. 1967: The Six Day War and Devaluation
  11. 1968: Revolution in Paris and Spring in Prague
  12. 1969: The Troubles, Biafra and In Place of Strife
  13. 1970: Edward Heath Becomes PM
  14. 1971: Decimalisation and Ulster in Flames
  15. 1972: Britain Joins Europe, Bloody Sunday and
    Black September
  16. 1973: Rivers of Blood, Europe and the Yom
    Kippur War
  17. 1974: Who Governs Britain?
  18. 1975: The Birth of Thatcherism and a
    Referendum on Europe
  19. 1976: Wilson Resigns
  20. 1977: Jubilee and Charter 77
 Read by Anna Massey,
with Robert Powell, Patience Tomlinson
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from CDs
1959-1979
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06-Dec-1999 to
31-Dec-1999
 Part 2-5 S02e71 to S02e90 1978-1999
  1. 1978: Camp David, Devolution and a Polish
    Pope
  2. 1979: Prime Minister Thatcher and the IRA
  3. 1980: Afghanistan and Michael Foot
  4. 1981: The SDP and IRA Hunger Strikes
  5. 1982: The Falklands War
  6. 1983: The Falklands Factor Election and
    Star Wars
  7. 1984: The Miners’ Strike and the Brighton
    Bomb
  8. 1985: Gorbachev and the Anglo-Irish
    Agreement
  9. 1986: Chernobyl and the Westland Affair
  10. 1987: The Great Debate, Black Monday
    and the Great Storm
  11. 1988: Another Thatcher Victory and
    Cabinet Divisions
  12. 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and
    Tiananmen Square
  13. 1990: The Poll Tax, the ERM and Exit
    Margaret Thatcher
  14. 1991: John Major and the War with Iraq
  15. 1992: Oldies, Speculators and Labour Falls
    Again
  16. 1993-94: The Death of John Smith,
    Maastricht and the Balkans
  17. 1995-96: Major Resigns and Labour Reforms
  18. 1997: The Death of Diana and the
    Election of New Labour
  19. 1998-99: Devolution, Kosovo and the
    Lords
  20. Two Thousand Years of Kinship
 Read by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell, Patience Tomlinson
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from CDs
1959-1979
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This Sceptred Isle -- Dynasties
Date Title Cast Parameters
03-Feb-2002 to
07-Apr-2002
 S03e01 to S03e10
  1. The Godwins Part 1
  2. The Godwins Part 2
  3. The Despensers
  4. The Irish Dynasties – MacMurroughs, Fitzgeralds, O’Neills
  5. The Churchills
  6. The Berkeleys
  7. The Russells
  8. The Norfolks
  9. The Dalrymples
  10. The Carringtons
 Read by Anna Massey
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R7
2005
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This Sceptred Isle -- Empire
Date Title Cast Parameters
26-Sep-2005
to
14-Oct-2005
 S04e01 to S04e15 Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries
  1. No Grand Plan
  2. 1155 – Ireland the First Colony
  3. Elizabeth I and Ireland
  4. Looking for China
  5. Elizabeth, Trade and Francis Drake
  6. John Hawkins and Humphrey Gilbert
  7. Martin Frobisher and Fool’s Gold
  8. Walter Ralegh and Virginia
  9. Disaster at Roanoke
  10. El Dorado and the Real Treasures
  11. Elizabeth and a New Economy
  12. The Spice Trade
  13. Towards the East Indies
  14. After the Armada and James Lancaster
  15. 1600 – The East India Company
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Anna Massey,
Mark Heap, Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman,
Robert Powell
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R4
2005
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17-Oct-2005 to
27-Oct-2005
 S04e16 to S04e24 The Seventeenth Century
  1. The England of James I and VI
  2. 1606 – The Virginia Company
  3. 1606 – Jamestown, Virginia
  4. Bermuda and Shipwrecks
  5. Slavery – Black and White
  6. The Pilgrim Fathers and the
    Massachusetts Bay Company
  7. The West Indies and Sugar
  8. Barbados and Civil War in England
  9. Trade with India
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Anna Massey,
Mark Heap, Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman,
Robert Powell
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin		 from BBC R4
2005
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28-Oct-2005 to
04-Nov-2005
 S04e25 to S04e30 The Eighteenth Century
  1. Clive of India
  2. The Scottish Empire
  3. Gibralter (Preempted on FM by a service of
    remembrance but broadcast on long wave.)
  4. Canada – Wolfe and Montcalm
  5. America – The Way to Independence
  6. The Empire Loses America
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Rob Brydon,
Robert Powell, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R4
2005
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30-Jan-2006 to
14-Feb-2006
 S04e31 to S04e42 The Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
  1. After the Revolution – The Boost to Canada
  2. Canada
  3. Australia – Captain Cook
  4. Australia – Transportation
  5. Australia – Sheep and Gold (19th century)
  6. The Innocents
  7. Imperialism and Edward Wakefield (19th
    century)
  8. New Zealand (19th century)
  9. Shutting the Slave Market
  10. The Last Shackle of Empire (19th century)
  11. Warren Hastings
  12. The Trial of Warren Hastings
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Denis Lawson,
Christopher Eccleston, Hugo Speer, Ben
Onwukwe, Jemma Redgrave, Vincent Ebrahim
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R4
2006
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15-Feb-2006 to
10-Mar-2006
 S04e43 to S04e60 The Nineteenth Century
  1. Nelson and Empire
  2. Raffles
  3. Ceylon
  4. Mungo Park
  5. The First Opium War
  6. The First Sikh War
  7. The Origins of the Indian Mutiny
  8. The Sepoy Rebellion (I)
  9. The Sepoy Rebellion (II)
  10. End of Mutiny
  11. The Viceroys
  12. Abyssinia
  13. West Africa: Jaw-Jaw
  14. The Missionaries
  15. South Africa – The British Arrive
  16. Brits and Boers
  17. Zulu War
  18. Empress
 Juliet Stevenson, Hugo Speer, Christopher
Eccleston, Denis Lawson, David Yip, Jemma
Redgrave, Vincent Ebrahim, Ben Onwukwe
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin   
from BBC R4
2006
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08-May-2006
to
23-May-2006
 S04e61 to S04e72 The Nineteenth Century
  1. From Ireland to Ireland
  2. The Irish Question
  3. Egypt, Sudan, and the Suez Canal
  4. The Death of General Gordon
  5. The Scramble for Africa
  6. Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim
  7. Diamond Jubilee
  8. The Battle of Omdurman
  9. Boers, Outlanders, and the Jameson Raid
  10. Gold and the Second Boer War
  11. The End of the Second Boer War
  12. The Death of the Queen Empress
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Joss Ackland, Jack
Davenport, Rupert Degas, Anna Massey,
Jemma Redgrave, Ben Onwukwe
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R4
2006
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24-May-2006 to
16-Jun-2006
 S04e73 to S04e90 The Twentieth Century
  1. The British Empire moves into the 20th century
  2. Lord Curzon, Tibet and Younghusband
  3. Lord Curzon - Duty and the Durbar
  4. Lord Curzon - Goodbye to All That
  5. A Greater Britain
  6. Imperial Preferences
  7. Defending the Empire
  8. The Last Imperial Reign
  9. Irish Home Rule and the Road to War
  10. The Empire and the First World War
  11. The Amritsar Massacre
  12. Mespot
  13. High Street Durbars
  14. India - Dominion or Not Dominion
  15. Gandhi or Jinnah
  16. The Empire and the Second World War
  17. India – Independence
  18. What Happened Next?
 Read by Juliet Stevenson, Joss Ackland, Jack
Davenport, Rupert Degas, Saeed Jaffrey,
Charlie Higson, Ben Onwukwe, Clive James,
Anna Massey
Written by Christopher Lee
Produced by Pete Atkin
 from BBC R4
2006
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Documentaries and Collateral Material
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