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A Choice of Kings (Original title)
Date: 11 October 1966 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Frankau

Synopsis: Play. Two years before the battle of Hastings, a dramatic explanation of the background to the confrontation.

Genre:
Historical drama

Subject:
Battle of Hastings
Credits (5)
Production Company: Rediffusion, Executive Producer: Peter Willes, Written by: John Mortimer, Designer: Michael Yates
Cast (12)
Michael Craig (Harold Godwineson, Earl of Wessex), Barbara Ewing (Edith Swan-neck - Harold's handfast wife), Michael Wennink (Wolfnoth - Harold's younger brother), Amaryllis Garnet (Judith of Balbec - William's cousin), Julian Glover (William Bastard - Duke of Normandy), Peter Jeffrey (Odo - Bishop of Bayeux, William's half brother), John Bailey (Fitzobern - William's steward), Christopher Guinee (Theobald - William's young chancellor), James Mellor (Roger of Montgomery - one of Williams's generals), Trevor Martin (Count Guy de Ponthieu - a vassal of William's), Suzanne Togni (Agatha - William's young daughter), Daphne Goddard (Nurse to Agatha)