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A Glimpse of the Burning Plain adapted by CHARLES ALLEN from his recent book
2: Burning and Murdering and Horrors
Charlotte Canning was the wife of the Governor-General of India when in 1857 the idyllic life in Government House, Calcutta, was shattered by the Mutiny. In the following months hundreds of British men, women and children throughout India were brutally murdered. Lady
Canning graphically described in letters to the Queen the terrible events of which almost every day there was fresh news. Narrator John Westbrook With NIGEL GRAHAM , JOHN RYE and IRENE SUTCUFFE
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo (Prunella Scales is in 'When We Are Married at the Whitehall Theatre, London)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Charles Allen
Narrator:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
John Rye
Unknown:
Irene Sutcuffe
Producer:
Alan Haydock.
Charlotte Canning:
Claire Bloom
Queen Victoria:
Prunella Scales
Source: Radio Times

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