You Are There · April 3, 1949 · 28 min · 3,296 words
The transcript of “Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (Repeat of 48-06-27)”, an episode of You Are There first broadcast April 3, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). You Are There plays You Are There free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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This is John Daly on the Great Hall of Following Gay Castle in Northampton, England, on this 8th day of February 1587. It is less than 30 minutes now to the hour when Mary, Queen of Scots, is destined to mount the scaffold erected here last night and to suffer executionals for the alleged attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England. Less than 30 minutes and still
the Scottish Queen has not asked for the pardon that can save her life. She is still apparently determined to choose death rather than risk any shadow of guilt upon the faith that passionately devoted. It is known on good authority that Mary can have a pardon. She can save her life if full of guilt over the small stage whose principal property is a plain wooden block.
You are based on authentic historical facts and quotations. And now in plain... Two hundred or so of the nobility have been assembled in haste from the neighborhood. They're speaking in hushed tones, speculating on whether or not this woman will choose to end her mortal life and thereby become immortal as a matter to her fate.
All last night, this great hall here at Fatheringay Castle was filled with a constant clamour of carpenters hammers erecting the scaffold. Mary slept in her guarded chambers above the clamour. Boulle, the London executioner and his assistant, are waiting now upon the platform.
a map. Bushner is here because the plan, the grammar conceived by one man, has at last reached its final act. That man is Queen Elizabeth, the Majesty's Secretary of State, Sir Francis. While Francis and Sir Francis alone goes the credit for the setting and springing of the track that snares the Scottish Queen in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth.
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