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Ruffian Dick

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Written and presented by PETER HUNT
Ruffian Dick was the nickname which friends and contemporaries bestowed on Sir Richard Burton-soldier , explorer, scholar. swordsman and the translator of the Kama Sutra. The Perfumed Garden and other learned works of that kind.
His wife Isabel was no less remarkable, if for no other reason than the way she put up with her husband's antics. with Francis de Wolff as Richard Burton Producer
ROBERT cradock

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hunt
Presented By:
Ruffian Dick
Unknown:
Sir Richard Burton-Soldier
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Richard Burton
Unknown:
Robert Cradock
Isabel:
Elizabeth Morgan
Journalist:
David Sinclair
Contessa:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Dr Baker:
Hector Ross
Source: Radio Times

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