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England's first King of the House of Anjou, Henry II, faced conflict with his sons. Mike Walker's trilogy stars David Warner. From February 2010.

By the 1180s - the first of the House of Anjou to be King of England - Henry II had reigned for 30 years and was coming under increasing opposition from his own sons...

Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, and the accounts of the lives of the Plantagenet Kings.

Starring David Warner as King Henry II, Jane Lapotaire as Queen Eleanor, Joseph Cohen-Cole as Prince Richard, Piers Wehner as Prince Hal, Rhys Jennings as Prince Geoffrey, Stephen Hogan as William Marshall, Bruce Alexander as Bertran de Bourne, Philip Fox as King Louis and John Biggins as Courtier

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2010.

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Thu 23 Nov 2017 03:00

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