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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Hereward the Wake

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    16 x 25 minute episodes

    Anglo-Norse nobleman Hereward Leofricsson (Alfred Lynch) is a wildly undisciplined young roisterer who is the despair of his stern and upright father Earl Leofric (Tony Steedman), and even more so of his mother, the saintly Lady Godiva of Coventry (Dorothy Reynolds).

    Edward the Confessor, the last of the Saxon kings, still rules in Westminster but he favours William of Normandy (John Carson) as his successor and Norman influence is already strong in England, especially in the church.

    One day, a stiff Norman cleric (David Swift) falls foul of Hereward and his drunken housecarls, and this is the last straw: Hereward is made “Wolf’s Head” (outlaw) and so he becomes a roving fighter and berserker, leading a sustained and gallant resistance to William and his Norman followers.

    Hereward’s attendant and friend, Martin Lightfoot – a slave with a mysteriously acquired store of education – was played by Bryan Pringle.

    The BBC dramatisation of the Charles Kingsley novel provided a real taste of a harsh and bloody period in British history and was presented in 16 weekly parts – the longest classical serial ever mounted by the BBC at the time.

    Hereward Leofricsson
    Alfred Lynch
    Martin Lightfoot
    Bryan Pringle
    Torfrida
    Yvonne Furneaux
    William of Normandy
    John Carson
    Ivo Taillebois
    Alan Rowe
    Gilbert of Ghent
    Francis De Wolff
    Alftruda
    Justine Lord
    Prior Herluin
    David Swift
    Winter
    John Collin
    Gwenoch
    Peter Needham
    Sir Raoul de Selignat
    Clive Graham
    Lady Godiva
    Dorothy Reynolds
    Earl Leofric
    Tony Steedman
    Edwin
    Alan Lake
    Pery
    Arthur Cox
    Thorold
    Peter Stephens
    Ranald of Ramsey
    David Neal
    Baldwin
    Kynaston Reeves
    Abbot of St. Bertin
    Patrick Holt
    Arnoul
    Raymond Platt
    Earl Harold
    Peter Arne
    Gyda
    Margaret Vines
    Morcar
    Gilbert Wynne
    Abbot Brand
    John Wentworth
    Horsa
    Michael Miller

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