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Wessex Tales

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on BBC Two England

A Tragedy of Two Ambitions by THOMAS HARDY: dramatised by DENNIS POTTER , starring with Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.
Music composed and conducted by JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Producer IRENE SHUBIK
Director MICHAEL TUCHNER

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Dennis Potter
Conducted By:
Joseph Horovitz
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
Michael Tuchner
Mr Halborough:
Paul Rogers
Joshua Halborough:
John Hurt
Cornelius Halborough:
David Troughton
Rose:
Lynne Frederick
Selinar:
Heather Canning
Squire:
Edward Petherbridge
Mrs Fellmer:
Betty Cooper
Countryman:
Dan Meaden
Labourers.......:
Andrew McCulloch
Labourers:
William Bond
Clergyman:
John Rainer
Principal:
Peter Bennett
Source: Radio Times

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