"The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out."
Denis Lawson
as Narrator
Simon Thorp
as Gabriele De Mussis
Vincent Carmichael
as Giovanni Boccaccio
Philip Madoc
as Gentile da Foligno
Jonathan Firth
as Louis Heyligen
Patrick Toomey
as Robert of Avesbury
Nicholas Rowe
as Gui de Chauliac
Timothy Watson
as Bailiff of the Court
Dorian Lough
as Nicholas Deneys
Susan Engel
as Lady Rose de Saxham
Mark Tandy
as Brother John Clynn
Chrissie Barlow
Production Manager
Federica Abaterusso
Location Manager
Mari Lucaccini
Art Department Manager
Stephanie Dawes
Casting Director
Peter Nicholson
Director
Laurence Williamson
Editor
Producer
Antonia Donlea
Costume Assistant
Clive Mattock
Online Editor
Nick Dance
Camera Operator
Sarah Class
Music
Kate Solomon
Production Assistant
Isolde Sommerfeldt
Costume Designer
Craig Emmerson
Art Department Assistant
Ben Oliver
Julie Berranger
Katherine Grincell
Colorist
Bill Jones
Executive Producer
Dave Hutton
Gaffer
Simon Farmer
Sound
David Blight
Production Design
Niccolò Cioni