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Drama on 3: Charles and Mary

Series 1, episode 0

Carlo Gebler's new play written specially for Radio 3 dramatises the extraordinary relationship between Charles and Mary Lamb, the brother and sister who in 1807 wrote The Tales Of Shakespeare, the seminal children's introduction to Shakespeare, which is still in print today. The domestic and personal circumstances behind their partnership were tragic - the combination of family poverty and stress drove Mary insane and she murdered her mother. Mary was never 'sane' again but during the writing of The Tales alongside her brother she was at her sanest. Literary production gave order and structure to her life. With Lia Williams, Paul Rhys, Anna Carteret, Dudley Sutton, Mark Bazeley, Marcella Riordan, Christine Kavanagh and Sam Dale. Directed by Roland Jacquarello