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The Third Adam

on BBC Radio 3

by JAMES ROOSE-EVANS based on the book by JERZY PETERKIEWICZ with music specially composed and conducted by ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK
This is the strange, shocking and moving story of the heretical Mariavite sect which grew up in Poland early this century and which still numbers some 30,000 devoted believers. Were the divine revelations of Maria Koziowska, the foundress of the sect, mere hallucinations? Was her famous (or notorious) successor, the polygamous Archbishop Kowalski, a passionate visionary, or a charlatan? His experiments were certainly bold: the ' mystical marriages' between priests and nuns, and the birth of 'mystical children ' in the cloisters.
Musicians: JULIAN COWARD SUSAN MILAN (flutes)
JULIAN FARRELL. WILLIAM GREEN (clarinets) RICHARD ADDISON (bass clarinet) Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
James Roose-Evans
Book By:
Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Conducted By:
Andrzej Panufnik
Musicians:
Julian Coward
Flutes:
Susan Milan
Flutes:
Julian Farrell.
Clarinets:
William Green
Bass:
Richard Addison
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Archbishop Kowalski:
With Joss Ackland
The Little Mother:
And Annette Crosbie
Prosecutor:
John Gabriel
The Bishops:Philip:
Malcolm Gerard
Jacob/Murat:
Anthony Newlands
Mark:
Harold Kasket
Andrew:
Kenneth Shanley
Joseph:
David Ashford
The Sisters:Janina:
Jane Knowles
Osinowna:
Karen Archer
Isabel:
Brenda Kaye
Casimir:
Heather Bell
Ex-priestess:
Joan Matheson
Jerzy:
James Roose-Evans
Narrator:
Gavin Campbell

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