![]() Starring Kris Marshall as Samuel Pepys, this entertaining and enlightening adaptation by Hattie Naylor vividly conjures up the sights and sounds of Pepys' world. 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. Now aged 70, in poor health, and living with his servant Will in Clapham, Pepys remembers the devastation. 1 Based on the diaries of the naval administrator Samuel Pepys, it portrays life at the court of Charles II during the 1660s. Thousands of homes and many key buildings had been destroyed or damaged, including St Paul's Cathedral. ( ) The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a British historical television series which was originally broadcast on the BBC in 1958. Samuel Pepys witnessed firsthand 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. ![]() ![]() When the Great Fire of 1666 was finally extinguished, little remained of London but smouldering rubble. 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 four hundred years ago. 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. ![]()
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