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'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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by Charles Dickens
Dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in twelve parts by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg
1 — ' The Fearful Man '
Music by Walter Goehr played by the Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by the composer
Production by Raymond Raikes

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Mabel Constanduros
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Music By:
Walter Goehr
Leader:
Leonard Hirsch
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Philip Pirrip (' Pip '), an orphan:
Cyril Cusack
Pip as a boy:
Michael Lister
Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict:
William Devlin
Joe Gargery, a blacksmith:
Laidman Browne
Mrs Gargery, his wife, and Pip's sister:
Natalie Kent
Uncle Pumblechook, a corn-chandlerand seedsman:
Norman Shelley
Mr Wopsle, a parish clerk:
Lawrence Baskcomb
Mr Hubble, a wheelwright:
Cyril Gardiner
Mrs Hubble, his wife:
Susan Richards
A sergeant:
Harry Hutchinson
Compeyson, another convict:
Alastair Duncan

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