Dramatised by Alan Downer
In August 1138, King Stephen is besieging rebels loyal to Empress Matilda in Shrewsbury Castle. Aline Siward enters King Stephen's camp to pledge loyalty, even though her brother Giles has sided with Matilda. The castle falls the next morning and King Stephen orders the 94 survivors of the turncoat garrison to be executed that afternoon.
Counting the bodies, Cadfael finds not 94, but 95 - one corpse too many. The additional dead man was strangled, not hanged. Aline finds the body of her brother.
Brother Cadfael has a murder on his hands.
Cast:
Brother Cadfael.......Glyn Houston
Godith Adeney.......Jane Slavin
King Stephen/Prior Robert.......Richard Tate
Gilbert Prestcote/Brother Louis.......John Moffatt
Adam Courcelle.......Geoffrey Whitehead
Aline Siward.......Joan Walker
Hugh Beringar.......Ken Cumberlidge
Edric Flesher/Brother Anselm.......Brian Miller
Petronilla Flesher.......Dilys Laye
Torold Blund.......Paul Downing
Lame Osbern/Boy.......Ian Targett
Brother Oswald.......David Goudge
Produced and Directed by Gerry Jones
40MB, 87 minutes, 64kbps
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Thank you, William
Wonderful!! Thanks, Bill!! Stay well!