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Classic Serial: The Sea, The Sea: 1: Vanished Pantomimes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Iris Murdoch's Booker Prize-winning novel, dramatised in four parts, with John Wood as Charles and Joyce Redman as Hartley.
Charles Arrowby, celebrated actor, writer and director, has retired from his London world and come to the sea to become a hermit and draft his memoirs. But the past will not let him rest...

Contributors

Author:
Iris Murdoch
Cellist:
Peter Esswood
Music:
Elizabeth Parker
Dramatised by:
Richard Crane
Director:
Faynia Williams
Charles:
John Wood
Hartley:
Joyce Redman
Landlord:
Jonathan Adams
Local 1:
John Evitts
Local 2:
Steve Hodson
Local 3:
John Baddeley
Rosina:
Sian Phillips
Lizzie:
Tamara Ustinov
Peregrine:
T.P. McKenna
Gilbert:
Peter Kelly
dement:
Jill Graham
Young Charles:
David Holt
Young James:
Sam Crane
James:
Terrence Hardiman
Young Hartley:
Rachel Atkins

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