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The Bagman or The Impromptu of Muswell Hill

on BBC Radio 3

A new play for radio by JOHN ARDEN
Music by DELIA DERBYSHIRE Special sound from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with Alan Dobie as the Narrator
This new play by one of Britain's leading playwrights was specially written for radio as a companion piece to Ionesco's L'lmpromptu de l'Alma (broadcast last Friday). In it John Arden. in the form of a dream. gives a highly personal view of the problems of an English playwright of his generation.
Other parts played by SONIA FRASER , MADI HEOD
SEAN BARRETT , WILFRID CARTER KERRY FRANCIS , LEONARD FENTON JOHN RYE, DAVID SPENSER
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Music By:
Delia Derbyshire
Unknown:
John Arden.
Played By:
Sonia Fraser
Played By:
Madi Heod
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Leonard Fenton
Produced By:
Martin Esslin
Young Woman:
Sheila Allen
Old Woman:
Hilda Kriseman
Popular Minister:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unpopular Minister:
Hector Ross
Ambassador:
Peter Pratt
King:
Austin Trevor
Queen:
Margaret Wolfit

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