narrator Michael Redgrave
performer [with] Ann Morrish
performer [with] David King
performer [with] Donald Wolfit
performer [with] Gary Watson
performer [with] Harvey Hall
performer [with] Lewis Casson
performer [with] Margaret Hodsdon
performer [with] Michael Hordern
performer [with] Peter Orr
performer [with] René Soames
performer [with] Robert Spencer
performer [with] The Ambrosian Singers
performer [with] The Purcell Consort Of Voices
producer, edited by Peter Orr
voice actor [queen elizabeth] Dorothy Tutin
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Produced by BBC enterprises for Horizon. Monoaural production.

A.2: These prophetic words are spoken by Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Elizabeth's christening in the last scene of King Henry VIII.
A.3: From a set of verses addressed to the Queen as she left the city of London, on her Coronation, January 15th, 1559.
A.4: This passage, written in 1612 is taken from Annals.
A.5: From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558.
A.7: From the Book of Ayres. (By kind permission of the Archive Division of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft).
A.8: Sonnet CXVI.
A.9: From Discovery of the large, rich and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great, and golden city of Manoa (1596).
A.10: From Act III, Scene 1 of Measure For Measure.
A.11: From Act V, Scene 5, Edward II.
A.12: From an address to the House of Commons, November 4th, 1586.
A.13: Elizabeth's address to Parliament, November 26th, 1586.
A.14: Last words of Mary, Queen of Scots, February 8th, 1587.
A.16: From a letter to Francis Walsingham, July 31, 1588.
A.17: Elizabeth's address to her forces at Tilbury, August 8th, 1588.
B.2: From Act IV, Scene 3 of the Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great.
B.3: From Act III, Scene 3 of Julius Caesar.
B.5: The music to this song from Act V, Scene 3 of As You Like It is found in the first Book Of Ayres. (By kind permission of the Archive Division of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft).
B.6: From the Survey of London.
B.7: From the Chronicles.
B.9: This poem is thought to have been written by Elizabeth around 1561.
B.10: First Part Galliard in Dance Time.
B.11: From Elizabeth's address to the Parliament, November 30th, 1601.
B.12: Sir John Harington, in a letter to his wife, December 17th, 1602.
B.14: From the Diary of John Manningham, a law student.
B.15: From the Book of Common Prayer.
B.16: A madrigal from the Triumphs of Oriana.

Cover: Detail from the view of a wedding feast, painted about 1590. Collection of the Marquess of Salisbury.

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