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The Importance of Being Earnest
A trivial comedy for serious people by OSCAR WILDE
The first broadcast of the original four-act version, edited by OWEN DUDLEY Worthing and With
Music composed and played by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Edited By:
Owen Dudley Worthing
Played By:
Terence Allbright
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
John Worthing:
Richard Pasco
Algernon Moncrieff:
Jeremy Clyde
The Hon Gwendolen Fairfax:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Cecily Cardew:
Prunella Scales
The Rev Canon Chasuble:
Maurice Denham
Miss Prism:
Sylvia Coleridge
Lady Bracknell:
Fabia Drake
Mr Gribsby:
Gerald Cross
Lane:
Richard Burnett
Merriman:
Jonathan Scott
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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