BBC Radio 4
Monday 23rd February 2009
2.15pm
‘The Nine Days Queen’ by Amanda Whittington is the BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play on Monday 23rd February.
More details at the BBC Radio 4 website – ‘The Nine Days Queen’.
You can ‘Listen Again’ for seven days after the broadcast.
The Sunday Times Culture – ‘Pick of the Day.’
Amanda Whittington’s drama, as its title suggests, deals with Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England at the age of 16 in 1553 but beheaded in the Tower of London a year later. The intricacies of Tudor politics, bastard queens, male issue, inheritance and religious hatred remain an impenetrably dense fog in the background, but what lifts it is actress Loo Brealey’s voice and interpretation of Jane as devout but headstrong, an attractive mix of vulnerability and personal strength.
Paul Donovan, Sunday Times Culture, 22 February 2009
Daily Mail – Weekend TV Guide
When Henry VIII’s daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were pronounced illegitimate, scheming and ambitious relatives proclaimed Lady Jane grey queen. Just 16, she reigned for nine days, and paid with her life for the plotting of others. This drama follows Jane’s doomed, desperate attempts not to be a pawn in a deadly power game.
Weekend, 21 February 2009
The Times – Playlist
Drama exploring the trial of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for just nine days in 1553, before being charged with high treason.
The Times Playlist
