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BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

John Gielgud with Joan Plowright in Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles translated by C. A. TRYPANIS
Chorus:
Philip Cunningham Godfrey Kenton Will Leighton
Duncan McIntyre Edgar Norfolk
Frank Partington Robert Sansom
Music specially composed and conducted by JOHN HOTCHKIS
Chorus directed by Colette King
Produced by VAL GIELGUD Broadcast on March 17, 1950, in the Third Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Joan Plowright
Translated By:
C. A. Trypanis
Unknown:
Philip Cunningham
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Will Leighton
Unknown:
Duncan McIntyre
Unknown:
Edgar Norfolk
Unknown:
Frank Partington
Unknown:
Robert Sansom
Conducted By:
John Hotchkis
Directed By:
Colette King
Produced By:
Val Gielgud
Oedipus:
John Gielgud
Antigone:
Joan Plowright
Stranger:
Norman Claridge
Ismene:
Judy Bailey
Theseus:
William Devlin
Creon:
Malcolm Keen
Polyneices:
Malcolm Hayes
Messenger:
Gabriel Woolf
Chorus Leader:
Carleton Hobbs
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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