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Afternoon Theatre: Captain Brassbound's Conversion

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Bernard Shaw
Shortened version for radio by Cedric Messina
Starring Sybil Thorndike
with Cecil Parker and Gabriel Woolf

Written in 1899, this play is set in Mogador and the foot-hills of the Atlas Mountains: 'in those hills there is a justice that is not the justice of your courts in England. If you have wronged a man you may meet that man there. If you have wronged a woman you may meet her son there. The justice of those hills is the justice of vengeance.'

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Adapted by:
Cedric Messina
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Narrator:
Alexander John
Drinkwater:
James McManus
Rankin:
Denys Hawthorne
Porter:
Frank Henderson
Sir Howard Halla:
Cecil Parker
Lady Cicely Waynflete:
Sybil Thorndike
Marzo:
Robert Rietty
Capt Brassbound:
Gabriel Woolf
Redbrook:
Bernard Brown
Johnson:
Ralph Truman
Osman:
Frank Henderson
Sidi et Assif:
Alaric Cotter
The Cadi:
Antony Viccars
Bluejacket:
Nigel Clayton
Capt Kearney:
John Justin
Source: Radio Times

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