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The Infernal Machine

BBC Radio 3
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by JEAN COCTEAU translated by CARL WILDMAN with and ' Listener, wound up here to the full so that the spring will slowly unwind the whole length of a human life. is one of the most perfect machines constructed by the infernal gods for the mathematical destruction of a mortal.'
Music by TRISTRAM CARY Producer H. B. FORTUlN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Cocteau
Translated By:
Carl Wildman
Music By:
Tristram Cary
Producer:
H. B. Fortuln
Oedipus:
Albert Finney
Jocasta:
Coral Browne
The Sphinx:
Catherine Dolan
Tiresias:
Miles Malleson
The Ghost:
Charles Simon
Anubis:
Heron Carvic
Young Soldier:
Nicholas Edmett
Soldier:
Tom Watson
Captain:
John Bryning
Matron:
Kathleen Helme
Creon:
Wilfred Babbage
The Messenger:
Keith Buckley
The Shepherd:
Arthur Ridley
The Drunk:
Julian Somers
Antigone:
Judy Horn
Source: Radio Times

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