A comedy by JOHN MARSTON GEORGE CHAPMAN and BEN JONSON with Donald Wolfit , Charles Leno
June Tobin , and John Slater
Music by Christopher Whelen
SCENE: London and Thames-side, 1605
Touchstone, a tradesman of Goldsmith's Row, Cheapside, Donald Wolflt ; Quicksilver and Golding, his apprentices, Charles Leno and Hugh Dickson ; Gertrude and Mildred, his daughters. June Tobin and Freda Dowie ; Poldavy, a tailor, Tom Wat son: Sir Petronel Flash, Heron Carvic ; Mistress Touchstone, Marjorie Westbury; Security, a usurer, John Slater ; Winnifrid, his wife, Nervs Kerfoot ; Sindefy, a punk, Janette Richer: Bramble, a lawyer, Charles Simon ; Capt. Seagull, Michael Turner ; Drawer at the Blue Anchor Tavern, Billingsgate, Keith Williams ; Slitgut, butcher's apprentice, Michael Bates ; Master Wolf , keeper of the prison, Lawrence Baskeomb ; Holdfast, a turnkey, Tom Watson : with members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Desmond Dupre. (lute) and a section of the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (6.5-6.15 app.)
Gordon Jacob : Movements from A William Byrd Suite on a gramophone record