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Saturday-Afternoon Theatre: The Fifth String

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by the American composer JOHN PHILIP SOUSA dramatised for radio by LIANE AUKIN with Sandor Eles as Angelo Diotti
Violin music arranged and played by Yossi Zivoni
'This is no ordinary violin - this string, the G, Is the string of pity; the D, the string of hope; the A, the string of love; the E gives forth the sound of joy - and the fifth string is the string of death. He who plays on it dies at once.'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Author:
John Philip Sousa
Dramatised by:
Liane Aukin
Violin played By:
Yossi Zivoni
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Angelo Diotti:
Sandor Eles
Francesca Diotti:
Gladys Spencer
Mrs Van Krall:
Margot Boyd
Mr Perkins:
Leonard Fenton
Mrs Llewelyn:
Elaine Ives-Cameron
Mildred Wallace:
Ann Bell
Simmons:
Martin Friend
Satan:
Godfrey Kenton
Mr Wallace:
Hal Galili
Jack Sanders:
Ed Bishop
Cabbie:
Brian Carroll

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