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Phra the Phoenician: Episode 5

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold
Phra has come a very long way from his Mediterranean birthplace when he is discovered in an old cellar. And he has a very strange story to tell.
Broadcast on Nov. 13, 1960

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Kelly
Based on the book by:
Edwin Lester Arnold
Producer:
Claire Chovil
Phra:
Norman Wooland
Hanno:
Jeffrey Segal
Doctor:
William Fox
First Boy:
Barry Henderson
Second Boy:
Christopher Turner
Abbot:
Carleton Hobbs
Armourer:
Jeffrey Segal
Isabel of Oswaldston:
Elizabeth London
Source: Radio Times

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