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BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by R. FARQUHARSON SHARP adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX with David March , Haydn Jones Walter Fitzgerald , Sheila Grant and Cherie Lunghi as Hedvig
' If you take away make-believe from the average man, you take away his happiness.'
The action takes place in the homes of Haakon Werle and Hjalmar Ekdal in a provincial Norwegian town in 1884. Broadcast on Sept. 27. 1965
See facing page followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Ibsen
Translated By:
R. Farquharson
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Cherie Lunghi
Unknown:
Haakon Werle
Unknown:
Hjalmar Ekdal
,Haakon Werle, a business man:
Hector Ross
Gregers Werle, his son:
Haydn Jones
Hjalmar Ekdal, a photographer:
David March
Mrs Sorby, housekeeper to Mr Werle:
Molly Rankin
Gina Ekdal, Hjalmar's wife:
Sheila Grant
Hedvig, his daughter:
Cherie Lunghi
Old Ekdal, his father:
Eric Anderson
Relling, a doctor:
Walter Fitzgerald
Molvik, an ex-theological student:
Michael McClain
Source: Radio Times

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