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Eccentric Travellers

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by JOHN KEAY. The fourth of seven programmes with Cyril Shaps as Joseph Wolff and Nigel Graham Narrator JOHN ROWE
Joseph Wolff had returned to England after years of missionary work to become a Church of England curate In Yorkshire. But in 1843 the uncertain fate of two British officers
Imprisoned in Central Asia aroused his concern and patriotism. Several months later he reached Bukhara and then found himself a prisoner. Wolff wrote a last farewell to his wife and son but miraculously he survived to tell his story. Producer ALAN haydock

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Unknown:
John Keay.
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Unknown:
Joseph Wolff
Narrator:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Joseph Wolff

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