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Small-time merchant Firuz's life is changed when his land is invaded by a rag-tag army of incomprehensible, ill-disciplined warriors from the West, fuelled by religious fanaticism.

By Jonathan Myerson. The story of the First Crusade, re-imagined from the Arab point of view, using the chronicles of the period.

Small-time merchant Firuz's life is changed when his land is invaded by a rag-tag army of incomprehensible, odorous and ill-disciplined warriors from the West, fuelled by religious fanaticism.

Firuz ...... Andrew Lincoln
The Stitch ...... Neil Dudgeon
Rihab ...... Helen Schlesinger
Yaghi-Siyan ...... Nicholas Woodeson
Tatikios ...... Peter Polycarpou
Nadirah ...... Rachel Atkins
Suleima ...... Jill Cardo
Anna ...... Janice Acquah
Peter ...... Chris Pavlo
Qilij ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Shams Al-Dawla ...... Dan Starkey

Other parts played by Malcolm Tierney, Stephen Critchlow and Robert Lonsdale

Directed by Jonquil Panting.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 7 Feb 2009 21:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Feb 2009 15:00
  • Sat 7 Feb 2009 21:00

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