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The Constant Couple

on Network Three

A comedy by George Farquhar
Arranged for broadcasting by Raymond Raikes
with Alec Clunes, Avice Landon, John Wyse
Characters in order of speaking:

(Alec Clunes is in "Getting Married" at the Strand Theatre, London)
(To be repeated on June 25)

During the Interval (8.55*-9.5*)
A record of Consort music by Coperario, Gibbons, and Ward, played by the Vienna Concentus Musicus

Contributors

Author:
George Farquhar
Arranged for broadcasting by/Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Music composed by:
Thomas Eastwood
Musicians:
A section of the New Symphony Orchestra of London
Conductor:
Kenneth Alwyn
Vizard, outwardly pious, otherwise a great debauchee, and villainous:
John Gabriel
Footman to Lady Darling and Angelica:
Nigel Clayton
Smuggler, an old merchant:
Norman Shelley
Standard, a disbanded Colonel, brave and generous:
John Wyse
Sir Harry Wildair. an airy gentle man, affecting humorous gaiety and freedom in his behaviour:
Alec Clunes
Lurewell, a lady of a jilting temper, proceeding from a resentment of her wrongs from men:
Avice Landon
Parly, maid to the Lady Lurewell:
Jo Manning Wilson
James, servant to the Lady Lure well:
Ian Thompson
Lady Darling, an old lady, mother to Angelica:
Fabia Drake
Angelica, a young woman of honour:
Carol Marsh

Network Three

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