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Saturday Playhouse: A Canticle for Leibowitz

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Walter M Miller Jr.

Six hundred years after the nuclear holocaust a group of monks struggle to preserve the remnant of humanity's scientific knowledge.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Walter M Miller Jr.
Music:
David Dorward
Music sung by:
Cappella Nova
Music directed by:
Alan Tavener
Dramatised by:
Donald Campbell
Director:
Hamish Wilson
Paido:
Michael MacKenzie
Ekazar:
John Shedden
Francis:
Andrew Price
Taddeo:
Billy Riddoch
Arkos:
Alexander Morton
Gault:
Gordon Fulton
Kornhoer:
Alec Heggie
Claret:
Robert Carlyle
Poet:
Charles Kearney

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