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Edward Lear: On the Edge of the Sand

on BBC Two England

Screenplay by Alan Plater
A special dramatised edition of The Natural World with Robert Lang as Edward Lear

Edward Lear is well known for his nonsense songs and poems, particularly 'The owl and the pussy-cat'. But this funny, lonely man earned his living painting birds and landscapes and, like nonsense heroes, travelled to strange and distant lands....
BBC Bristol
Feature: page 8 and Woddis On: page 71

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Edward Lear
Music:
Edward Lear
Arranged by:
Johnny Pearson
Costume Designer:
Catriona Tomalin
Designer:
Andrew Purcell
Film Editor:
Andrew Naylor
Photography:
Maurice Fisher
Producer:
Michael Andrews
Director:
John Glenister
Edward Lear:
Robert Lang
Ann Lear:
Anne Stallybrass
Lord Derby:
Donald Eccles
Franklin Lushington:
Timothy Peters
Holman Hunt:
Albert Welling
Giorgio Kokali:
Andreas Markos
Gussie Bethel:
Lizann Rodger
Emily Tennyson:
Ann Curthoys
Alfred Tennyson:
John Forbes-Robertson
Young Lear:
David Glover
Clown:
Robbie Barnett
Clown:
Willie Evans
Builder:
Ray Marioni

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