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The Sunday Play: Harold

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Adapted for radio and produced by Hallam Tennyson
Music specially composed by Elizabeth Poston
with and Stephen Murray, Ernest Milton and Beth Boyd
(This programme was first broadcast on October 10, 1966, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings)
Main characters in order of speaking: with Clive Merrison
The music and singers conducted by Douglas Robinson

Contributors

Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
Composed By:
Elizabeth Poston
Unknown:
Ernest Milton
Unknown:
Beth Boyd
Unknown:
Clive Merrison
Conducted By:
Douglas Robinson
Harold:
Gabriel Woolf
Aldwyth:
Jill Balcon
Morcar, her brother, head of the house of Alfgar:
John Dearth
Gurth, brother to Harold:
Nigel Graham
Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Humphrey Morton
Harold, Earl of Wessex:
Gabriel Woolf
King Edward the Confessor:
Ernest Milton
Tostig, Earl of Northumbria, brother to Harold:
Henry Stamper
The Queen, wife to Edward and sister to Harold:
Joan Matheson
Edith, ward to the King, betrothed to Harold.:
Beth Boyd
Guy, Count of Ponthieu:
Allan McClelland
William Malet, a Norman nobleman..:
Preston Lockwood
William, Count of Normandy:
Stephen Murray
Wulfnoth, younger brother to Harold:
Henry Manning
Aldred, Archbishop of York:
Allan McClelland
Source: Radio Times

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