The Knight Before Picard
Long before he commanded the Enterprise, Patrick Stewart picked up a sword.
In 1978, BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Night Theatre broadcast J. C. W. Brook’s extraordinary The Tale of the Knight, the Witch and the Dragon, with Stewart as Sir Hugh of Monreth—an aging knight living in a peaceful world that has begun to think knights, witches, dragons, and perhaps even the old stories themselves are no longer necessary.
Then the dragon comes back.
In this Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to this remarkable production: Patrick Stewart’s performance, Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic…
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