Milady
Drama of the Week
BBC
3.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Milady de Winter is believed dead. But that’s never stopped her before.
Alexandre Dumas’ iconic femme fatale returns in Lucy Catherine’s wicked retelling of the story of the Three Musketeers’ deadliest adversary.
Rescued from the executioner’s blade by her shadowy benefactor Cardinal Richelieu, Milady yearns for a fresh start and the chance to reunite with her long-lost love.
But the Cardinal isn’t done with her yet. He has a new mission for her – one that will propel her into the company of the most dangerous figures in all of Europe.
Milady . . . . . Selin Hizli Richelieu . . . . . Carl Prekopp Marie de Medici . . . . . Hattie Morahan D'Artagnan . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr Abbé . . . . . Simon Scardifield Comtesse . . . . . Jasmine Hyde Priest . . . . . Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Sound Design: Sharon Hughes, Peter Ringrose, Alison Craig
Directors: Sasha Yevtushenko and Ben Hollands
A BBC Studios production.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | The 8th of August, 1963, a gang of thieves hold up a British Royal Mail train on its way from Glasgow to London. |
| 0:16.0 | More than two million pounds was stolen, and Ronnie Biggs was the most famous face of the great train robbery. |
| 0:22.8 | Daniel Mays reveals the true story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:26.4 | A train robbery, a prison escape and 36 years on the run. |
| 0:30.6 | Gangster presents the story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:33.9 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:41.4 | Imagine you are granted a second life. |
| 0:44.2 | If I sentenced you to death, by hanging! |
| 0:50.2 | Not the one that is to come in heaven. |
| 0:52.9 | I mean a second life in the here and now. |
| 0:56.2 | In this grubby, nasty, fickle little world we call home. |
| 1:03.4 | Now imagine being granted a third. |
| 1:06.5 | Are you ready to die? |
| 1:07.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:09.4 | I've done it before. |
| 1:13.8 | My only dream was to escape the drudgery and pain of the existence intended for me |
| 1:19.1 | and start again from scratch. |
| 1:21.5 | As you have no name, I shall give you one. |
| 1:24.5 | To become someone entirely new. |
| 1:27.6 | Sister Anne, it is the name Sister Marie-Therais chose for me. |
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