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Troilus and Cressida

on Third Programme

by William Shakespeare

(Originally broadcast in 1959)

(A performance of Walton's opera, from Covent Garden: Monday at 7.30)

During the Interval
9.30-9.40* A record of the second movement of Bliss's Music for Strings, played by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the composer

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Music composed by:
Geoffrey Wright
Producer:
Peter Watts
Prologue:
George Hagan
Troilus, young son to Priam, king of Troy:
Jonathan Scott
Pandarus, uncle to Cressida:
Carleton Hobbs
Aeneas, a Trojan noble:
Godfrey Kenton
Cressida, daughter to Calchas:
Denise Barker
Alexander, her man:
Richard Williams
Boy, Troilus' page:
Nicky Edmett
Agamemnon, leader of the Creeks:
Jeffrey Segal
Ulysses, king of Ithaca:
John Glen
Menelaus, king of Sparta, husband to Helen:
John Cazabon
Nestor, an old king:
Stephen Jack
Thersites, a scurrilous Greek:
Malcolm Hayes
Ajax, a Grecian lord:
Francis de Wolff
Achilles, a Grecian lord in dudgeon:
Trevor Martin
Patroclus, his friend:
David March
Priam, king of Troy:
Eric Anderson
Hector, his eldest son:
Valentine Dyall
Helenus, a priest, son to Priam:
Frederick Treves
Cassandra, a prophetess, daughter to Priam:
Beryl Calder
Paris, son to Priam:
John Westbrook
Diomed, a Grecian lord:
John Hollis
Helen, wife to Menelaus:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Calchas a priest, father to Cressida:
Wilfrid Grantham
Andromache, wife to Hector:
Molly Rankin
Margarelon, a bastard son to Priam:
Rolf Lefebvre
[Actors]:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

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