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Cymbeline

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peggy Ashcroft Festival
We do not habitually get the pleasure of hearing the most moving voice on the English stage, that of Peggy Ashcroit , in a full recording of a great role (Ivor Brown : 1967) and With EILEEN ATKINS
ANTONY BROWN. EBWARD CADOICK SIMON CARTER , JOHN DAVIDSON HENRY DAVIES , MAVIS EDWARDS WILLIAM ELMHIRST ELIZABETH EVANS
KENNETH GILBERT , JOHN GRAYSON DEREK MAYHEW , NORMAN MILLER PETER PALMER
JOHN MURRAY SCOTT
JOHN SALWAY , GORDON SOUTFR ROY SPENCER. MOLLY TAPPER
PAMELA TAYLOR , GORDON WRIGHT Director PETER HALL with music by RAYMOND LEPPARD Radio adaptation and production by VICTOR MENZIES
(from Birmingham: shortened version of the 1957 broadcast by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company)
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Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
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Peggy Ashcroit
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Ivor Brown
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Eileen Atkins
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Antony Brown.
Unknown:
Ebward Cadoick
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Simon Carter
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John Davidson
Unknown:
Henry Davies
Unknown:
Mavis Edwards
Unknown:
William Elmhirst
Unknown:
Elizabeth Evans
Unknown:
Kenneth Gilbert
Unknown:
John Grayson
Unknown:
Derek Mayhew
Unknown:
Norman Miller
Unknown:
Peter Palmer
Unknown:
John Murray Scott
Unknown:
John Salway
Unknown:
Gordon Soutfr
Unknown:
Roy Spencer.
Unknown:
Molly Tapper
Unknown:
Pamela Taylor
Unknown:
Gordon Wright
Director:
Peter Hall
Music By:
Raymond Leppard
Production By:
Victor Menzies
Narrator:
Patrick Wymark
A gentleman:
Thanebettany
First Lord:
Peter Celller
Second Lord:
Barry Warren
The Queen:
Joan Miller
Posthumus Leonatus, husband to Imogen ....:
Richard Johnson
Imogen, daughter to Cymbeline by a former Queen:
Peggy Ashcroft
Cymbeline, King of Britain:
Robert Harris
Pisanio, servant to Posthumus:
Mark Dignam
Cloten, son to the Queen by a former husband...:
Clive Revill
lachimo, an Italian:
Geoffrey Keen
Philario, an Italian, friend to Posthumus.:
Donald Layne-Smith
Cornelius, a physician:
James Wellman
A singer:
Rex Robinson
Caius Lucius, general of the Roman forces...:
Donald Eccles
Belarius, called Morgan:
Cyril Luckham
Guiderius and Arviragus. sons to Cymbeline, supposed sons to Morgan:
Robert Arnold
Guiderius and Arviragus. sons to Cymbeline, supposed sons to Morgan:
Brian Bedford
A Gaoler:
Julian Glover
Source: Radio Times

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