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The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.
Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next 10 years he faithfully recorded the day’s events and confessed his innermost thoughts. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents. Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century, including the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War. He also told us what people ate and wore, what they did for fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they expected of marriage, and even how they conducted love affairs. He described London – the frozen river Thames, the rising crime rate and the poverty – and recorded the details of his own life: his wife, rivals, lovers and friends, his work for the Navy, his drinking and social life.
Over 350 years may have passed since Pepys first put pen to paper, but the man and his preoccupations feel surprisingly familiar. In this major BBC Radio dramatisation of the journals, the sights and sounds of his world are vividly conjured. This collection comprises all 10 radio series plus a special Saturday Drama centring on the Great Fire of London.
After the Fire:
Kris Marshall (My Family) stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the famous diarist’s account of the aftermath of the Great Fire of London.
Following on from the acclaimed radio dramatisation of Pepys’ complete diaries, this further instalment of his chronicles focuses on events following the cataclysmic inferno that destroyed much of the capital 400 years ago.
When the Great Fire of 1666 was finally extinguished, little remained of London but smouldering rubble. Samuel Pepys witnessed first-hand the impact it had on the city and its people, and would be haunted by what he had seen for the rest of his life. Thousands of homes and many key buildings had been destroyed or damaged, including St Paul’s Cathedral.
Now aged 70, in poor health, and living with his servant Will in Clapham, Pepys remembers the devastation. He recalls burying his prize Parmesan to keep it safe, standing in Moorfield among the homeless as London burned, going out in his carriage to look at the ruins, and viewing the plans for the new city that would rise from the ashes – its centrepiece a magnificent cathedral that would be hailed as a masterpiece.
Starring Kris Marshall as Samuel Pepys, this entertaining and enlightening adaptation by Hattie Naylor vividly conjures up the sights and sounds of Pepys’ world.
Episode List
- S01E01 – 1660
- S01E02 – 1660
- S01E03 – 1660
- S01E04 – 1660
- S01E05 – 1660
- S02E01 – 1661
- S02E02 – 1661
- S02E03 – 1661
- S02E04 – 1661
- S02E05 – 1661
- S03E01 – 1662
- S03E02 – 1662
- S03E03 – 1662
- S03E04 – 1662
- S03E05 – 1662
- S04E01 – 1663
- S04E02 – 1663
- S04E03 – 1663
- S04E04 – 1663
- S04E05 – 1663
- S05E01 – 1664
- S05E02 – 1664
- S05E03 – 1664
- S05E04 – 1664
- S05E05 – 1664
- S06E01 – 1665
- S06E02 – 1665
- S06E03 – 1665
- S06E04 – 1665
- S06E05 – 1665
- S07E01 – 1666
- S07E02 – 1666
- S07E03 – 1666
- S07E04 – 1666
- S07E05 – 1666
- S07ESP – Fire of London
- S08E01 – 1667
- S08E02 – 1667
- S08E03 – 1667
- S08E04 – 1667
- S08E05 – 1667
- S09E01 – 1668
- S09E02 – 1668
- S09E03 – 1668
- S09E04 – 1668
- S09E05 – 1668
- S10E01 – 1669
- S10E02 – 1669
- S10E03 – 1669
- S10E04 – 1669
- S10E05 – 1669
- S11E01 – After the Fire
- S11E02 – After the Fire
- S11E03 – After the Fire
- S11E04 – After the Fire
- S11E05 – After the Fire
