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Afternoon Theatre: The Playboy of the Western World

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by J.M. Synge
Adapted for broadcasting by W.R. Rodgers
with Siobhan McKenna, Eamonn Keane, Liam Redmond, Milo O'Shea, Anna Manahan and Jack Cunningham

Greatness is about to begin.
In a little room
Men will walk and talk like Kings for a while
And explore
The wide and windy acres of words.
A country girl will comport herself in the style of a Queen of note,
A penny potboy take on the golden tongue of a poet
(W.R. Rodgers)

(medium wave only)
(B'cast in 1965)

Contributors

Author:
J.M. Synge
Adapted by:
W.R. Rodgers
Producer/Director:
Ronald Mason
Opening narration:
Patricia Leventon
Opening narration:
Allan McClelland
Margaret Flaherty, called Pegeen Mike:
Siobhan McKenna
Shawn Keogh, a farmer:
Milo O'Shea
Michael James Flaherty, a publican:
Liam Redmond
Small farmers - Jimmy Farrell:
Patrick McAlinney
Small farmers - Philly Cullen:
Barry Keegan
Christopher Mahon:
Eamonn Keane
Widow Quin:
Anna Manahan
Village girls - Susan Brady:
Barbara Adair
Village girls - Honor Blake:
Maggie Fitzgerald
Village girls - Sara Tansey:
Kate Binchy
Old Mahon, a squatter:
Jack Cunningham
Villager:
Patricia Leventon
Villager:
Valerie Kirkbright
Villager:
Allan McClelland
Villager:
Hamlyn Benson
Villager:
Miriam Margolyes

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