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' HUGH THE DROVER'

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or ' Love in the Stocks '
A romantic ballad opera in two acts
Words by Harold Child
Music by Vaughan Williams
Villagers, pedlars, soldiers
BBC Opera Chorus
BBC Opera Orchestra (Led by John Sharpe )
Conductor. Stanford Robinson
Presented by Mark Lubbock Narrator, Patrick Troughton
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser
The action takes place in a small town in the Cotswolds in the early nineteenth century
Act 1
A fair in an open field near the town. Morning. April 30

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Child
Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Conductor:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Presented By:
Mark Lubbock
Narrator:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Leo Wurmser
The constable:
Owen Brannigan
Mary, the constable's daughter:
Joyce Gartside
Aunt Jane. the constable's sister:
Mary Jarred
John, the butcher:
Frederick Sharp
The turnkey:
Powell Lloyd
A showman:
Fabian Smith
A sergeant:
Denis Dowling
Hugh, the drover:
Webster Booth
A cheap-jack:
George Steam Scott
A shell-fish seller:
Fisher Morgan
A primrose seller:
Ethel Gedge
A ballad seller:
David Holman
Source: Radio Times

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