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Socrates Asks Why

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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Play by Eric Linklater.

[Austin Trevor appears] (by permission of H. M. Tennent, Ltd.)

Contributors

Author:
Eric Linklater
Producer:
Val Gielgud
Narrator:
Valentine Dyall
Socrates:
Felix Aylmer
Abraham Lincoln:
James McKechnie
Voltaire:
Austin Trevor
Dr. Johnson:
Francis L Sullivan
Beethoven:
Leo de Pokorny
Flight-Lieut Arden:
John Robinson
The Piper:
John Laurie
Sergeant of the US Marines:
Harry Ross
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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