Armada: 12 Days to Save England
2015•1 Seasons•3 Episodes•Ended
DocumentaryHistory
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
Network
BBC Two
Origin
GB
Cast
Dan Snow
Self - Presenter
Anita Dobson
Queen Elizabeth I
Iain Fletcher
Sir Francis Drake
Joseph Balderrama
Medina Sidonia
Zeh Prado
Mateo
Philip Cox
King Phillip II
Rupert Frazer
Lord William Burghley
Crispin Redman
Sir Francis Walsingham
Dominic Jephcott
Admiral Charles Howard
Alun Raglan
Juan Martinez de Recalde
Phoebe Thomas
Elizabeth Throckmorton
Gwenyth Petty
Blanche Parry
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