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The Bird of Dawning

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by JOHN MASEFIELD
The last of six parts adapted by COLIN finbow
A group of 16 sailors have struggled to stay alive after their tea clipper was struck by a steamship.
They have fought with the sea and each other, but they are a part of the same crew. And now they are drawn together again with the sighting of The
Bird of Dawning - another clipper, apparently abandoned ...
Narrator BRETT USHER
Music coach
GEOFFREY COLLINS
Additional research and shanty man HENRY STAMPER Technical presentation DAVID GREENWOOD
RICHARD BEADSMOORE and ROGER DANES
Directed by PETER KING

Contributors

Unknown:
John Masefield
Adapted By:
Colin Finbow
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Henry Stamper
Unknown:
David Greenwood
Unknown:
Richard Beadsmoore
Unknown:
Roger Danes
Directed By:
Peter King
Cruiser Trewsbury:
Michael N. Harbour
Fairford:
Norman Jones
Stratton:
Timothy Bateson
Efans:
Anthony Hall
Clutterbucks:
Geoffrey Collins
Bauer:
Colin Starkey
Chedglow:
Chris Chescoe
Coates:
Paul Dalton
Edgeworth:
Henry Stamper
Rodmartin:
Peter Acre
Source: Radio Times

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