The White Company (radio 1965)

The White Company: A Chronicle of the Hundred Years War is a British radio play produced by Trevor Hill (BBC), adapted by Nan Macdonald, first aired from 4 to 15 january 1965 on BBC Home Service, starring Stanley MacKenzie as Sir Nigel Loring. 9 x 30 min.

Episodes

• 1. How Alleyne Edricson Came Out into the World (4 january 1965)
• 2. How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood (5 january 1965)
• 3. How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow (7 january 1965)
• 4. How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys (8 january 1965)
• 5. How Alleyne Proved His Mettle, and England Held the Lists at Bordeaux (11 january 1965)
• 6. How Sir Nigel Met with the Champion of France (12 january 1965)
• 7. How Five Men held the Keep at Villefranche (13 january 1965)
• 8. How Sir Nigel Took Command of the White Company and Led the Vanguard into Spain (14 january 1965)
• 9. The Last Stand of the White Company (15 january 1965)

Cast

• The Chronicler : Ronald Harvi
• Sir Nigel Loring : Stanley MacKenzie
• Lady Loring : Fanny Carter
• Lady Maude, her daughter : Sara Aimson
• Bertrand, her page : Nigel Turner
• The Black Prince : Nigel Davenport
• Samkin Aylward  : Victor Lucas
• Alleyne Edrieson : David Spenser
• Sir John Chandos : Ronald Baddiley
• John of Hordle : James Luxton
• John of Hordle's mother : Rosalie Williams
• Black Simon of Norwich : Roy Minton
• Wat : Alan Bradley
• A girl : Jill Tracey
• Humphrey : Jeffrey Denton
• Don Diego : John Linstrum
• Dame Eliza : Norma Wilson
• Roger Harcomb : Struan Rodger
• Earl of Angus : Paul Webster
• Lady Tiphaine : Marjorie Westbury
• An elderly lady : Alison Bayley
• Bligh, an archer : Peter Wheeler
• Sir Simon Burley : Norman Somers
• Lady de Rochefort : Mara Stohl
• Gaston, an innkeeper : Jim Wiggins
• Sir William Felton : Francis Winfield
• Peter Terlake a squire : Brian Trueman
• Sir Bertrand du Guesclin : Francis de Wolff
• Mark Shaw, another archer : John Daglish
• Sir Bertrand's Breton squire : Alan Haines
• The Mayor of Lepe / A Bearward : Tom Harrison
• Chancellor / Sir Hugh Calverley : Robert Wallace
• Walter Ford, squire to Sir Nigel : Keith Buckley
• A crossbowman from Brabant / Hugh : Jack Woolgar
• Father Stephen, chaplain to Sir Tristram : John Wardle
• Sir Oliver Buttershorn / Sir Otto Harnit : Graham Tennant
• Norbury, squire to Sir Oliver / A young archer : Paul Bond
• John Tranter, an older squire / Don Sancho, a Spanish squire / The Socman of Minstead : Ralph Hallett
• The Abbot of Beaulieu / Sir Tristram de Rochefort / Sir Claud Latour, a Breton knight : David Mahlowe
• Goodwin Hawtayne, a master shipman / Pelligny, the Bishop's Champion / Johnstone, an old archer : Bert Parnaby

Crew

• Writer : Nan Macdonald
• Music : William Relton

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