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Sunday Play: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

By James Agee and Walker Evans , dramatised for radio by Stanley Richardson. In 1936, Fortune magazine in NYC commissioned journalists James Agee and Walker Evans to do a lifestyle article on tenant farmers in Alabama. However, what the two delivered was an emotional and quite shocking portrait of an impoverished and near feudal existence - a portrait that Fortune found itself quite unable to print. with Stacey Zuckerman , Bill Bailey ,
Ed Bishop , Debora Weston , John Guerrasio. Mary Ellen Ray , Barbara Barnes and Amanda Gordon. Director Eoin O'Callaghan

Contributors

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James Agee
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Walker Evans
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Stanley Richardson.
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James Agee
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Walker Evans
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Stacey Zuckerman
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Bill Bailey
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Ed Bishop
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Debora Weston
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John Guerrasio.
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Mary Ellen Ray
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Barbara Barnes
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Amanda Gordon.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
James Agee:
Nathan Osgood
Walker Evans:
Garrick Hagon
Boy in Oklahoma:
Matt Givens
Carl:
Dean Hill
Source: Radio Times

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