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The Friday Play: The Rescue

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by Edward Sackville-West after Homer's "Odyssey".
Music by Benjamin Britten.
8.40-8.45* Reading from "Eddy: The Life of Edward Sackville-West" by Michael Delanoye

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Sackville-West
Music:
Benjamin Bntten
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader:
Gwyneth Barkham
Singers:
BBC Singers
Conductor:
Simon Joly
Director:
Ian Cotterell
Director:
Chris de Souza
Author (interval reading):
Michael Delanoye
Odysseus:
Richard Pasco
Penelope:
Anna Massey
Phemius:
Godfrey Kenton
Mentor:
Laurence Payne
Eurymachus:
Michael Deacon
Halitherses:
Paul Gregory
His Wife:
Polly James
Machaon:
Stephen Rashbrook
Callidice:
Caroline Gruber
Irus:
Richard Pearce
Leodes:
Simon Cupr
Eurynome:
Emily Richard
Telemachus:
Simon Hewitt
Euryclea, her nurse:
Diana Olsson
Coxswain:
Stephen Tompkinson
Eumaeus:
Anthony Jackson
Antinous:
Brian Sanders
Peisander:
Davm Ooodland
Leocritus:
Peter Craze
Ctesippus:
Paul Sirr
Melanthius:
Richard Tate
Medon:
John Samson
Athene:
Victoria Carling
Athene sung by:
Tracey Chadwell (soprano)
Hermes:
David Johnston (tenor)
Apollo:
Peter Savidge (bantone)
Artemis:
Ameral Gunson (mezzo-Soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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