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Drama Now: Parrots and Owls

on BBC Radio 3

The third in a major new series of plays commissioned for Radio 3.
Award-winning writer John Purser 's new play is set in Oxford in 1850. When the University commissions a science museum, Oxford takes unkindly to a temple to the Theory of Evolution, the revolutionary design is dangerous, and the Irish craftsmen turn rebellious
... yet out of adversity a thing of beauty is born.
Director Jeremy Howe

Contributors

Unknown:
John Purser
Director:
Jeremy Howe
John Ruskin:
Michael Pennington
James O'Shea:
Sean McGinley
Danny O'Shea:
Dermot Crowley
Woodward:
Mark Lambert
Nuala:
Brid Brennan
Whellan:
Meredith Davies
Effie Ruskin:
Cara Kelly
John Everett Millais:
Lyndam Gregory
Thomas Huxley:
Neville Jason
Bishop Wilberforce:
Colin Pinney
Vice Admiral Fitzroy:
Don McCorkindale
Gypsy:
Tina Gray

BBC Radio 3

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