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BARTHOL'MEW FAIR

on BBC Radio 3

0 A comedy by Ben Jonson
Adapted for stereophony by RAYMOND RAIKES
The Induction on the stage of the Hope Theatre. Bankside, before the play was first acted on October 31. 1614:
The Play first, outside Lovewit's house nea» Paul's: then to 'Barthol'mew Fair', at Smithfield on the Feast of ' old Saint Bartle '-August 24. 1614:
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Robert Eddison is in ' The Importance of Being Earnest ' at the Haymarket Theatre. London

Contributors

Comedy By:
Ben Jonson
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Produced By:
Robert Eddison
A Stage-Keeper:
Ian Thompson
A Book-holder:
Peter Baldwin
John Littlewit an Attorney of Paul's:
David Brierley
Win Littlewit his wife:
Carol Marsh
Ned Winwife, a gentleman:
Denys Hawthorne
Humphrey Wasp:
Carleton Hobbs
Barthol'mew Cukes:
Robert Eddison
Grace Wellborn, ward to Adam Overdo:
Rosalind Shanks
Dame Overdo, wife to Adam Overdo:
Betty Hardy
Dame Purecraft, Win's mother and a widow:
Elizabeth Morgan
Zeal-of-the-Land Busy a Banbury Puritan:
Charles Gray
Lantborn Leatherhead. a Hobby-horse seller and Puppet-master:
Ronald Herdman
Joan Trash a Ginger-bread woman:
Barbara Mitchell
Nightingale, a Ballad-singer:
Alan Dudley
A Coster-Monger:
Peter Baldwin
Adam Overdo, a Justice of Peace:
John Justin
Ursula, a pig-woman:
Norah Blaney
Mooncalf, her Tapster:
Geoffrey Wincott
Captain Jordan Knockem a horse-courser:
Francis de Wolff
Eekiel Edgworth a cut-purse:
Anthony Jackson
Tobv Haggis:
Duncan McLn' Re
Davy Bristle:
Ian Thompson
Pbnk Alice mistress o' the Game:
Elizabeth Morgan
Door-keepers at the Puppet-theatre: Filcher:
Antony Viccars
Sharkwell:
Christopher Bidmead

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