Pretender Prince: Episode 3: Shiny Our Silver

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BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 1745 Charles and his army of Highlanders cross into England and conquer Carlisle, Manchester, and Derby with surprising speed. But can they march on London and reclaim the British throne for the Stuart dynasty?

Jack Lowden presents the dramatic story of the rise and fall of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. Written by Colin MacDonald with original music by Duncan Chisholm.

Narrator……………………………………………..…....Jack Lowden

Bonnie Prince Charlie ……………….…………....Lorn Macdonald Colonel John O’Sullivan ………………………...Gavin Mitchell Lord George Murray……………………………….Robert Jack Allan Ramsay………………………….……………....Kenny Blyth Donald Cameron………………….………………..Sam James Smith Allan Cameron……………………………………….Douglas Yannaghas Catherine Cameron………………………..………Helen Mackay

Written by.............................................................Colin MacDonald

Music arranged by.............................................Duncan Chisholm Music performed by Duncan Chisholm, Ingrid Henderson, Martin O’Neill and Ross Ainslie. With contributions by historians, Jacqueline Riding, Alistair Moffat and Maggie Craig

Edited by..............................................................Kris MacConachie Studio Managers..............................................Sean Mullervy and Kris MacConnachie Executive Producer..........................................Gordon Kennedy Broadcast Assistant.........................................Clare Hipkiss

Producer/Director............................................Bruce Young

Recorded at BBC Scotland Drama Studios, Pacific Quay, Glasgow An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:12.0	This is Pretender Prince, the story of the rise and fall of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
0:21.3	It's written by Colin MacDonald.
0:23.9	The narrator is Jack Loudon.
0:26.3	Episode 3, Shiny R. Silver.
0:36.4	At Holyrood in the days after the seismic Jacobite victory at Preston Pans,
0:41.4	there are banquets and balls.
0:44.1	The citizens of Edinburgh are glad to have the young Bonnie Prince Charlie in their midst,
0:48.6	eat, dance and are merry.
0:51.3	The prince glad hands the people he views as his, the people who have come
0:56.2	to celebrate his arrival among them. There's a magnificent song by the sorely missed Scottish
1:02.8	singer-songwriter, Michael Mara, Minson with Cherley. Mincin, with a silent G since we're
1:09.8	in Scotland, is, according to the dictionary definition,
1:13.4	moving in an effectively dainty or delicate way, typically said of a man.
1:18.4	Shiny our silver and sweeping our plaids,
1:22.1	silk in our hose burned with green and with yellow,
1:25.4	that bled with the red on the ill-chosen ground when I was mincing with
1:31.2	Shirley. That bled with the red on the ill-chosen ground. It seems a far cry from the palace
1:38.6	ballroom now to the last major battle on British mainland soil. That'll be at the end of this rash adventure,
1:46.0	a matter of months after this elegant dance.
1:49.0	In April 1746 at Collodden, south of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands,
1:55.0	a slaughtering.
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