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Icarus

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by IRIS ORIGO and HALLAM TENNYSON
A story of Ruth Draper and an anti-Fascist gesture with Eleanor Bron as Ruth Draper and Robert Rietty as Lauro de Bosis
It is an improbable chain which could connect Ruth Draper , the American solo actress and creator of characters, with Mussolini. The link was Laura de Bosis. a young Italian poet and royalist anti-Fascist and Ruth Draper 's lover.
Hallam Tennyson narrates Other parts played by PEGGY PAIGE , EVE KARPF, LOLLY COCKERELL, ROGER HAMMOND , ADRIAN EGAN and JOHN church. Directed by Richard KEEN

Contributors

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Hallam Tennyson
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Ruth Draper
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Eleanor Bron
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Ruth Draper
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Robert Rietty
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Ruth Draper
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Ruth Draper
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Hallam Tennyson
Played By:
Peggy Paige
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Roger Hammond
Directed By:
Richard Keen
Source: Radio Times

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