An imaginary conversation between Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage by JOHN O'HARE with Anthony Jacobs as Richard Savage Timothy West as Samuel Johnson and ROSALIND SHANKS
FRANK SIEMAN , MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Samuel Johnson , as a young man newly come to London, worked as a hack on The Gentleman's Magazine. Here he got to know Richard Savage , dramatist, drunkard, profligate, and reputedly the unacknowledged bastard son of the Countess of Macclesfield. Johnson, the last man to tolerate a bore, found him witty and entertaining, and these two unusual men who often could not afford a lodging walked the streets all night.
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.50