An Arabian fantasy by Günter Eich
Translated by Martina Mayne
Omar the Caliph (Hugh Burden); Omar the Stevedore (John Slater ); Vizier
(Geoffrey Wincott ); Slave (Brian Wilde );
Samsa, the Stevedore's wife (
Betty Linton ); The Stevedore's children (Ann Totten ,Angela Shade , Nigel Jenkins ,
Jonathan Margetts , Serena Wilson ); Captain
Wurman Wynne); Sailor (Gabriel Woolf);
Emirs (Edgar Norfolk, Norman Wynne,
Gabriel Woolf); Jaafar (a Stevedore), and Merchant (Douglas Blachwell); Custodian
(Dera Cooper)
Music composed and played by Na'im al-Basri
With Lionel Solomon (bass flute) Production by Christopher Holme
followed by an interlude at 8.20