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Last broadcast on Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
1 of 4
Pilgrim is called upon to help an old friend who is possessed by a deadly forest spirit . The first of four new dark fantasy adventures featuring the immortal William Palmer.
CAST
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Tadek ..... Karl Johnson
Cecilia ..... Faye Castelow
Ewa ..... Susan Engel
Macadam ..... Dudley Sutton
Cripps ..... John Rowe
Henselow ..... Adam Billington
Grainger ..... Rikki Lawton
Directed by Marc Beeby
This is the third series of enormously popular adventures to feature cult hero William Palmer - the Pilgrim of the title.
In 1185, William Palmer was making pilgrimage to Canterbury. Unbeknownst to him his fellow pilgrim was the King of the Greyfolk. When William claimed that the Church would wipe out the belief in the Faerie world, he was cursed by the Faerie King and condemned forever to the walk between our world and theirs.
The plays in PILGRIM are thrilling, dark and contemporary. They're set in a very recognisable, very real present, but a present haunted by the folktales of these islands: forest spirits, changeling children, Merlin...
Interview with writer Sebastian Baczkiewicz (BBC Writersroom)
Interview with Pilgrim writer Sebastian Baczkiewicz and fellow radio writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz on their careers and writing for radio.
Broadcast
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Thu 26 Jan 201214:15
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