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The Sorrows of Ireland by HONOR TRACY with Alan Bennett and Patrick Magee
For many years Dick Fother gill, a producer, worked on Irish programmes, faithfully adhering to Policy. Falling a prey to Melancholia, he is allowed, just once, to express his own ideas - ably hampered by Sean Sweeney , an absentee patriot who volunteers to criticise and correct. and and Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON The Sorrows of Ireland ' won the Radio Writers' Award for the best feature of 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
Patrick Magee
Unknown:
Dick Fother
Unknown:
Sean Sweeney
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Dick Fothergill:
Alan Bennett
Sean Sweeney:
Patrick Magee
Irish Singer:
Beth Boyd
Nurse:
Margaret Robertson
Actor:
Ian Thompson
Romans, Petronius and Lucullus:
Geoffrey Wincott
Miss Ribbersniff, an English lady:
Nancy Nevinson
Dr Doyle:
Denis McCarthy
Lord Erne:
Duncan McIntyre
Capt Boycott:
Denys Hawthorne
Priest:
Robert Mooney
Mickey O'Flaherty, a farmer:
Harry Hutchinson
Mary his wife:
Mary O'Farrell
Two English tourists. John and Diana:
Denis Goacher
Two English tourists. John and Diana:
Barbara Mitchell
Aphrodite, a Greek peasant:
Nancy Nevinson
A German businessman:
Geoffrey Wincott
Tomo, an Irish labourer:
Harry Hutchinson
Source: Radio Times

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