Tamburlaine Shadow Of God (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

John Fletcher’s BBC Radio 3 full-cast play explores the dramatic clash between three key historical figures: a warlord, a historian and a poet. Originally broadcast in Radio 3’s ‘Drama on 3’ slot on 16 November 2008.  As war swirls around them, three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fierce debate: how can a successful society be built, and what does it need to do to endure?  The play draws together Tamburlaine, conqueror of the world, and two of his contemporaries: Ibn Khaldun, the world's first sociologist, and Hafez, the great Sufi mystic and poet.     ‘Tamburlaine: Shadow of God’ is a blood-soaked history and a serious debate, exploring three very different views of the philosophy on which a successful society should be built, and the values it needs to espouse in order to endure.     Jeffery Kissoon plays Tamburlaine, John Rowe plays Ibn Khaldun with Conleth Hill as Hafez. The cast also includes Jonathan Taffler, Inam Mirza, Stephen Critchlow, Dan Starkey, Donna Hughes, Chris Pavlo, Gunnar Cauthery and Robert Lonsdale. Directed by Marc Beeby.

John Fletcher

Freddie Lees

Full Cast

Madeleine Cemm

Hubert Rees

Conrad Phillips

John Abineri

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast spy thriller

A six-part radio spy thriller about an ex-SAS agent framed for murder and on the run 
 
Terry Prince is an ex-SAS professional occasionally hired by the Secret Services to do special 'jobs'. His latest mission seems straightforward enough: find and retrieve a top secret file, belonging to the Department of Internal Security, that has been leaked to a left-wing magazine. 
 
Arriving at the offices of Socialist Attack, he discovers the editor dead - and he himself suspected of murder. Falsely accused, he goes on the run from both the Internal Security Department and gangsters from London's underworld. 
 
But Terry's cover is blown, and he soon finds himself blackmailed by a mysterious organisation who threaten to turn him in unless he works for them. Heading to a remote country mansion in Oxford with his instructions, he prepares to do battle with whatever forces await him... 
 
Created by John Fletcher, whose writing credits include Bergerac, this gripping serial stars Freddie Lees as Terry, with John Abineri, Hubert Rees and Madeleine Cemm. 
 
 
 
Production credits 
Written by John Fletcher 
Directed by Brian Miller 
 
Cast 
Terry - Freddie Lees 
Thompson - John Abineri 
Fortescue - Hubert Rees 
Sturley/Georghiu - John Linstrum 
Sir James Simpson - Conrad Phillips 
Chris - Elwyn Johnson 
Linda Taylor - Madeleine Cemm 
Nick - Brett Usher 
Watson - Ray Handy 
Trader - Colin Starkey 
Keith - Rod Beacham 
Frank - Thomas Heathcote 
Josie - Hilda Schroder 
Hobson - David Sinclair 
Radio voice - Roger Leach 
Manny Silverman - Arnold Diamond 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 May-24 June 1984

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