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Play Festival: The Bagman or The Impromptu of Muswell Hill

on BBC Radio 3

by JOHN ARDEN with Alan Dobie and Sheila Allen
This is the second from a selection of ten notable plays specially written for radio and broadcast over the last 25 years.
In one of his ' autobiographical' plays, John Arden describes some of the problems facing a modern playwright, in the fairy-tale setting of a dream.
Starving and the voices of SEAN BARRETT , WILFRID CARTER , LEONARD FENTON , KERRY FRANCIS , JOHN RYE and DAVID SPENSER
Music by the BBC Radio-phonic Workshop
Directed by MARTIN ESSLIN (First broadcast in 1970)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Unknown:
Alan Doble
Unknown:
Sheila Allen
Unknown:
John Arden
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Leonard Fenton
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Directed By:
Martin Esslin
Narrator:
Alan Dobie
Old Woman:
Hilda Kriseman
Young Woman:
Sheila Allen
Popular Minister:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unpopular Minister:
Hector Ross
Ambassador:
Peter Pratt
King:
Austin Trevor
Queen:
Margaret Wolfit
Women:
Hilda Kriseman
Women:
Madi Hedd
Women:
Sonia Fraser

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