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The Rescue

on BBC Radio 3

with music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN A melodrama for broadcasting by EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST arranged for stereo and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES based on HOMER 'S Odyssey with Stephen Murray
Rachel Gurney. Marius Goring Jill Balcon , Leslie French
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by RAE JENKINS

Contributors

Music By:
Benjamin Britten
Duced By:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Homer 'S Odyssey
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Rachel Gurney.
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
The Goddess Athene:
Jill Balcon
Mentor:
George Hagan
Phemius:
Marius Goring
Eurymachus:
Vernon Joyner
Halitherses:
Haydn Jones
His Wife:
Katherine Parr
Callidice:
Bonnie Hurren
IruS:
Leslie French
Leodes:
David Timson
Penelope:
Rachel Gurney
Eurynome:
Diana Bishop
Telemachus:
Hugh Dickson
Euryclea:
Wynne Clark
A coxswain:
Robin Browne
Two sailors:
Haydn Jones
Two sailors,:
Fraser Kerr
Odysseus:
Stephen Murray
Eumaeus:
Will Leighton
Antinous:
Clive Swift
Peisander:
Fraser Kerr
Agelaus:
Peter Williams
Amphinomus:
John Forrest
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Marion Dodd,
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Yvonne Newman
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Veronica Lucas
Mourners, naiads and sirens:
Leonie Henshilwood

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