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Drama on 3: King Baabu

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

A comic and outlandish look at dictatorship, in Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka 's play - a loose adaptation of Alfred Jarry 's Ubu Roi.
Drumming and musical director Tunji Oyelana
Tobias Sturmer (trumpet/bugle) Director Pauline Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Wole Soyinka
Unknown:
Alfred Jarry
Director:
Tunji Oyelana
Director:
Tobias Sturmer
Director:
Pauline Harris
Maku Makubeti:
Paterson Joseph
Ma Makube:
Susan Aderin
Tikim:
Wale Ojo
Chaplain/Shoki:
Patrice Naiambana
Marabout/Kpoki:
Marcia Hewitt
Fatasimu/officers:
Anthony Ofoegbu
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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