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Selected for Friday The Gay Lothario in The Fair Penitent by NICHOLAS ROWE (1703)
This is the play in which ' The Gay Lothario ' first appeared, and the phrase has since passed into history for a laughing, amorous rogue. Adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES with music by STEPHEN DODGSON The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by MARJORIE WESTBURY
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA organ and harpsichord WILLIAM DAVIES conducted by KENNETH ALWYN Producer RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Rowe
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Music By:
Stephen Dodgson
Spoken By:
Marjorie Westbury
Harpsichord:
William Davies
Conducted By:
Kenneth Alwyn
Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Altamont:
Gabriel Woolf
Horatio, his friend:
Victor Lucas
Sciolto, father to Calista:
Norman Shelley
Lothario:
John Justin
Rossano, his friend:
Denis McCarthy
Lucilla, maid to Calista:
Gudrun Ure
Lavinia, wife to Horatio:
Marjorie Westbury
Calista, ' the fair Penitent:
Barbara 'Mitchell
Source: Radio Times

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