In 1066, speaking truth to power can be deadly.
PIERCING TIME
A political thriller and love story based on the story of the Bassett family in England.
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A STORY OF LOVE, TRUTH AND POWER
Piercing Time is a 10-part historical drama based on the story of the Bassett family in England almost 1,000 years ago. A political thriller and love story, Piercing Time follows the life of Cynewyn of Drayton, a Saxon/Mercian heiress from a long line of powerful landowners who falls on hard times after the Normans take away her land and very nearly, her life. Winding through the story are falconers, priests, jongleurs, seamstresses, kings, queens and exotic Turkish guardsmen. Cynewyn’s fate is intimately tied to the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry, an artifact of crowning genius that may or may not have been a tool of propaganda for the Saxon cause. While Cynewyn of Drayton is fictional, the events in the story are real.
Enjoy the journey to 11th century England in PIERCING TIME.
MEET THE SHOW’S CAST
Sophie Flack
Cynewyn of Drayton
Pierre Georges
Thurstan de Bassett
Sheherazade Bodin
Isabelle de Bassett and Narrator
James Reynard
Narrator
Louise Gracey
Female Narrator & Aelfgyva
Matt Fearnley
Bardolfe and Father Nico
Hannah Raehse
Bertana and Lady Abbess
Liviu Bora
King William
Zoe Cunningham
Queen Edith
Andrew Bowes
Bishop Odo and Turold
Roy Barrow
Morcar, Messenger Ranulf and Ralph
Winter Foenander
Siward
Ozgur Ozgencer