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Afternoon Play: Peacemakers

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Baroness. In the first of three plays charting the history of the peace movement,
Melissa Murray dramatises a meeting between Baroness Bertha von Suttner and the dying Alfred Nobel in a hotel in Vienna. She tries to persuade the inventor of dynamite to invest some of his riches in the development of the Peace League. But
Nobel has other matters to raise with his old friend.
Director Peter Leslie Wild

Contributors

Unknown:
Melissa Murray
Unknown:
Bertha von Suttner
Director:
Peter Leslie Wild
Alfred:
Jeffery Dench
Fried:
Tom George
Baroness:
Carolyn Pickles
Umfrid:
Graham Padden

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