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The Monday Play: Tughlaq

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by GIRISH KARNAD
with Robin Ellis, Saeed Jaffrey and Sheila Allen
'Najib, I want Delhi vacated immediately. Every living soul will leave for Daulatabad within a fortnight. Not a light should be seen in the windows of Delhi. Not a wisp of smoke should rise from its chimneys. Nothing but the empty graveyards of Delhi will satisfy me now.' 14th-century India. Muhammad Tughlaq was both the greatest idealist and the greatest failure to sit on the throne of Delhi.
Narrator John Bull
Music specially composed By Donald Fraser and conducted by ROBIN DAVIS
Technical presentation JANET MITCHELL ROY FRASER VANESSA ELLNER
Directed by LIANE AUKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Girish Karnad
Unknown:
Robin Ellis
Unknown:
Saeed Jaffrey
Unknown:
Sheila Allen
Unknown:
Robin Davis
Unknown:
Janet Mitchell
Unknown:
Roy Fraser
Unknown:
Vanessa Ellner
Director:
Liane Aukin
Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq:
Robin Ellis
Barabi:
Saeed Jaffrey
Najib:
Cyril Shaps
The Stepmother:
Sheila Allen
Ratansingh:
Darien Angadi
Prince Shihab:
Neville Jason
Sheikh Imam:
Renu Setna
Sheikh Imam:
Timothy Bateson
Aazam:
Anthony Jackson
Aziz:
Peter Woodthorpe
Old man:
Martin Friend
Young man:
Andrew Branch
Leader of the citizens:
John Church
Royal announcer:
Philip Sully
Royal announcer:
Paul Grinbergs
Sheikh Shams:
Brian Raines
The Three Amirs:
Roger Hammond
The Three Amirs:
Gordon Dulieu
The Three Amirs:
Peter Baldwin
Source: Radio Times

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