How we Used to Live - Dangerous Journeys

Alternative title: Murder and a Mystery, A
Synopsis: Three-part drama series for schools recreating Elizabethan times. Five programmes, three dramas and two documentaries about Tudor England. The dramas - based on historical evidence - follow the adventures of sixteen year-old Master William Shakestafe who is responsible for the Catholic education of the young son of a wealthy household torn by the stresses of opposition to the state religion. They involve the hunt for travelling priest Edmund Campion, the mounting of a masque about Drake, and a border skirmish which threatens the family succession.
Series: How we Used to Live: A Tudor Interlude
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: history of the 16th century; schools; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)