Elsinore: Part 2

Synopsis

After his capture by the pirate Captain True, Claudius returns to Elsinore determined to find out why King Hamlet did not pay the ransom demand. A strange, Danish farmer comes to court to deliver horses as a give to the king.

Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of the 1930s and re-imagines the Danish Court in the years leading up to the evens in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Series

Elsinore

Language

English

Country

Great Britain; United Kingdom

Medium

Radio

Transmission details

2 Jan 2018 at 14:15 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)

Duration

45 mins

Credits

Director

Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko

Writer

Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Cast

John Heffernan	Hamlet
John Light	Claudius
Clive Hayward	Polonius
Abbie Andrews	Beatrix
Adam Fitzgerald	Ulrik Krabbe
Ben Crow	Uncle
Isabella Inchbald	Katya
Philip Bretherton	Schroeder
Rupert Holliday Evans	Olsson
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong	Guard
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong	Yorick

Additional Details

Production type

Television and Radio Drama

Historical period

1930s

Plays

Hamlet

Subjects

Shakespeare

Notes

Notes

A four-part, prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Online Availability

Online URL

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l8z3s

Online format

Streamed

Distributor

Name

BBC Radio 4

Web

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 External site opens in new window