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Kaleidoscope: It's Cutlasses Now, Men!

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Jeffrey Richards film critic and historian, takes a spectacular look at the action-packed world of the swashbucklers - those chivalrous sword- and sabre-wielding paladins of film, fiction and theatre - from Chaucer's Noble Knight, to Douglas Fairbanks Sr's Robin
Hood and Errol Flynn's Sea Hawk, from the hot blooded youth of Shakespeare's Verona to Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac; Gene Kelly's Musketeer and Stewart Granger's Scaramouche.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeffrey Richards
Producer:
John Powell
Editor:
Rosemary Hart
Speaker:
Alistair Cooke
Speaker:
Kevin Brownlow
Speaker:
John Baxter
Speaker:
Stewart Granger
Speaker:
William Hobbs
Speaker:
Derek Ware
Speaker:
Christopher Palmer
Speaker:
Dame Flora Robson
Speaker:
Ralph Faulkener
Speaker:
Cornel Wilde
Speaker:
Douglas Fairbanks JR.
Source: Radio Times

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