While Creation managed without doubling, three of the BBC actors played two roles each by adopting contrasting accents and vocal registers – ‘he do the police in different voices’. The drastic cuts thus necessitated were strikingly different in the two versions, crafted for casts of nine and six respectively. Both versions were heavily abridged, Radio 4's coming in at 90 minutes, Creation's at a slightly more expansive 100.

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The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster