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It's London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe, a young writer, is fatally stabbed in a Deptford lodging house because of a disagreement over the bill. There's an investigation, the witnesses are interrogated, and the suspect walks free. The authorities find that Marlowe was the aggressor and was killed in self-defence.

History says it was just a drunken quarrel, nothing more. But Charles Nicholl thinks it was murder, and an unsolved murder never grows old.

In Episode 2, Nicholl explores the shadow world of the Elizabethan Secret Service - its masters, servants and victims - in his search to discover what happened in that little room in Deptford.

Christopher Marlowe . . . . . Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Robert Poley . . . . . Burn Gorman
Thomas Phelippes . . . . . Carl Prekopp
Francis Walsingham . . . . . Emilio Doorgasingh
Robert Cecil . . . . . John Heffernan
Thomas Watson . . . . . Matthew Durkan
Anthony Babington . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera
Thomas Hariot . . . . . Neil McCaul
Richard Topcliffe . . . . . Michael Begley
William Bradley . . . . . Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Mary Queen of Scots . . . . . Ruth Everett
Maid . . . . . Alexandra Hannant

Dramatised by Mike Walker, based on The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
Sound by Peter Ringrose
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko