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Patience

on BBC Radio 4 FM

or Bunthorne's Bride!
An Entirely New and Original Aesthetic Opera in Two Acts
Written by W.S. Gilbert
Music by Arthur Sullivan

Dramatis Personae:
Officers of Dragoon Guards:
Narrator John Rye
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra, leader John Bradbury, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras

Act 1
(First broadcast on R3)

8.40 During the Interval
A recording of Stanley Holloway reading 'The Yarn of the Nancy Bell', from W.S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads.

8.45 Patience Act 2

Contributors

Writer:
W.S. Gilbert
Music:
Arthur Sullivan
Conductor:
Sir Charles Mackerras
Producer:
Robert Bowman
Producer:
Ian Cotterell

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