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The Wednesday Play: Pitchi Poi

on BBC One London

by Francois Billetdoux
English version by Peter Meyer

A remarkable play that was originally shown as part of "The Largest Theatre in the World" on Eurovision, when it was seen by an estimated audience of 150 million people
The story starts in France: a Jewish refugee from the SS entrusts her 3-month-old baby to a peasant who devotes the next 20 years of his life to an attempt to reunite the child and her mother
The part of Mathieu the peasant is played by Georges Rouquier, the film director

Contributors

Author:
Francois Billetdoux
English version by:
Peter Meyer
Music:
Wilfred Josephs
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Producer:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Roderick Graham
Mathieu:
Georges Rouquier
Rogation:
Karine Levy
Rogation:
Marie Laure Benahim
Rogation:
Monique Demestre
Rogation:
Nina Demestre
Rogation:
Chantel Salvaderi
Rogation:
Hermine Karzian
Voices:
Mathieu: Ronald Radd
Voices:
Rogation: Imogen Hassall
Voices:
Narrator: Alvar Lidell
Interrogator:
Catherine Dolan
Interrogator:
Hugh Dickson
Interrogator:
Malcolm Hayes
Interrogator:
Ann Rye
Interrogator:
Hana-Maria Pravda
Interrogator:
David Spenser

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