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The Monday Play: The Last of the Incas

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by G. Wilson Knight
with Lee Montague, John Rowe Hugh Dickson, Robert East

The play tells the story of Pizarro's dramatic conquest of Peru and the fall of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa in 1532-33.

(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
(Lee Montague is in "Who Saw Him Die?" at the Haymarket Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
G. Wilson Knight
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Music Specially Composed By:
Christos Pittas
Pizarro:
Lee Montague
Mendez:
John Hollis
Valverde a friar:
Hugh Dickson
Hernando, Pizarro's brother:
Kerry Francis
Felipillo, an Indian interpreter:
Andrew Sachs
De Soto:
Robert East
Soldier:
David Ericsson
Pedro, Pizarro's cousin:
Sion Probert
Almagro:
Michael Spice
Chalcuchima, an Inca general:
Sean Arnold
Atahualpa, Emperor of Peru:
John Rowe
Singer:
Teoka Ries
High Priest:
Stephen Thorne
Pedro Moguer:
Trader Faulkner
De Zarate/De Cuellar:
John Corvin
Inca historian:
Lewis Stringer
Riquelme:
Geoffrey Hutchings
De Chaves:
Alan Rowe
Del Barco:
Alan Dudley
Source: Radio Times

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