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Starred Programme ' THE BEGGAR'S OPERA'

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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by John Gay. Arranged, with additional music, by Frederic Austin. Adapted for radio and produced by Stephen Thomas
Lionel Salter (harpsichord). BBC Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra': conductor, Stanford Robinson

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gay.
Music By:
Frederic Austin.
Produced By:
Stephen Thomas
Harpsichord:
Lionel Salter
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
The Beggar and Narrator:
Alan Howland
The Player and Mr Peachum:
George Baker
Filch:
John Lewis
Mrs Peachum:
Edith Coates
Polly:
Doris Gambell
Macheath:
Roderick Jones
A Drawer:
Wilfrid Puttick
Jenny Diver:
Sybil Evers
Lockit:
Owen Brannigan
Lucy:
Linda Gray
Mrs Trapes:
Olive Darby
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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