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The Great Monkey Trial

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The State of Tennessee v
John Thomas Scopes adapted from the original transcripts by Peter Goodchild , and recorded in Hollywood. With Tyne Daly ,
Edward Asner and Charles Durning.
In 1925, in the small town of Dayton, a young schoolmaster was indicted for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution, because "it denied the story of the Divine
Creation as taught in the Bible". Fundamentalists and Evolutionists soon locked antlers.
Narrator Tyne Daly.
Producer Susan Loewenberg and Martin Jenkins
Stereo
(In association with L A Theatre Works) 0 DRAMA: page 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Thomas Scopes
Unknown:
Peter Goodchild
Unknown:
Tyne Daly
Unknown:
Edward Asner
Unknown:
Charles Durning.
Narrator:
Tyne Daly.
Producer:
Susan Loewenberg
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Judge Raulstan:
John Randolph
William Jennings Bryan:
Edward Asner
Tom Stewart:
Harris Yulin
Ben McKenzie:
Logan Ramsey
Clarence Darrow:
Charles Durning
DF Malone:
Harold Gould
A G Hays:
Gerrit Graham

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