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The Medici: Bankers, Gangsters, Popes - BBC Radio Drama by Mike Walker, Sian Ejiwunmi Le-Berre, narrated by Full Cast, Patrick Baladi, Sirine Saba, Tom Cullen, Saran Morgan
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Overview: Mike Walker’s gripping BBC Radio drama about money, art, religion, politics and power.

Florence, 1415. Banker Cosimo Medici is looked down upon as a jumped up money-changer. Then he marries the noble Contessina de Bardi and becomes the richest man in Europe. But his wealth and power threaten the Florentine elite, who are determined to bring him down...

However, the House of Medici cannot be crushed that easily. Sixty years and many violent deaths later, the family are the unquestioned, ruthless rulers of Florence. They control the government, have transformed the city through their patronage of the arts, and one of them has even been crowned Pope. But trouble is coming in the form of the fanatical poet monk Savonarola, and the bank is in decline. Can Lorenzo the Magnificent save anything for his dim-witted successors – and will they even care?

With a cast of extraordinary characters including Piero the Gouty, master negotiator Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Pope Leo X, as well as Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Artemisia Gentileschi, this fast-paced ‘Renaissance Sopranos’ tells the thrilling story of one of the most infamous dynasties of all time. Among the cast are Patrick Baladi, Sirine Saba, Tom Cullen and Saran Morgan.

Written by Mike Walker

Sound Design: Nigel Lewis and Catherine Robinson

Organ: Branwen Munn

Produced by John Norton

Cast

Cosimo de' Medici – Patrick Baladi

Contessina de' Bardi – Sirine Saba

Rinaldo degli Albizzi – Richard Elfyn

Niccolo Tinucci – Christopher Elson

Old Giovanni – Hugh Thomas

Silvio – Marc Danbury

Gio Verdi – Marco Fiera

The Manager – David Hounslow

Lorenzo de' Medici – Tom Cullen

Lucrezia Tornabuoni – Saran Morgan

Clarice Orsini – Abra Thompson

Gio de' Medici – Gareth Pierce

Marietta – Saran Morgan

Cardinal Orsini – Simon Armstrong

Soderini – Daniel Cerqueira

Pope Sixtus – John Cording

Tinucci – Tommy Sim'aan

Pazzi – Matthew Durkan

Savonarola – Matthew Gravelle

King Ferrante – Jonathon Forbes

Pope Innocent – Roger Ringrose

Leonardo da Vinci – Tom Kiteley

Botticelli – Hughie O' Donnell
Genre: Audiobooks > Fiction



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