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World Drama: Mithridates

BBC Radio 3
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by Racine
Translated by Samuel Solomon, who introduces this English premiere
[Starring] Marius Goring and Geraldine McEwan

The place: Nymphaeum, a port on the Black Sea. The period: some 70 years B.C.
News has been brought to Nymphaeum of Mithridates' death in battle.

(Joan Haythorne is in "Crown Matrimonial" at the Haymarket Theatre, London) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Author:
null Racine
Translated by/Presenter:
Samuel Solomon
Percussion sequences composed and played by:
James Blades
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Mithridates, King of Pontus:
Marius Goring
Monima, affianced to Mithridates and already proclaimed Queen:
Geraldine McEwan
Sons of Mithridates by different mothers - Pharnaces:
Clifford Norgate
Sons of Mithridates by different mothers - Xiphares:
Martin Jarvis
Arbates, Governor of Nymphaeum fort:
William Fox
Phaedima, lady-in-waiting to Monima:
Joan Haythorne
Areas, squire to Mithridates:
John Forrest
Source: Radio Times

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