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' Voyages of Discovery ' ' MARCO POLO'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Cast includes James McKechnie as Marco Polo , and Ronald Simpson as Narrator. Written and produced by Rayner Heppenstall In 1271. a youth of seventeen left Venice in the company of his father and his uncle and proceeded in an easterly direction overland from Acre. Twenty-four years later he returned, with extravagant stories of the court of Kubla Khan which few believed.

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James McKechnie
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Marco Polo
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Ronald Simpson
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
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Kubla Khan

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