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Selected for Friday Michael Hordern in The Guilt of King Polyerates
A melodrama for an age of prosperity: verse play for radio based on HERODOTUS by ANDREW M. WILKINSON (PETER GURNEY)
Music by HUMPHREY SEARLE
The rule of King Polycrates in the island of Samos probably began in the year 532 Be.
Other parts DIANA OLSSON, PHILIP CUNNINGHAM, HUGH DICKSON, JOHN HOLLIS, JOHN HUMPHRY, JON ROLLASON, DOUGLAS STORM, GABRIEL WOOLF : with a section of THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS Combined choirs of the LOUGHTON HIGH SCHOOL for GIRLS and the BANCROFT BOYS' SCHOOL
SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by HUMPHREY SEARLE Producer RAYMOND RAIKES (1960) ‡

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Andrew M. Wilkinson
Music By:
Humphrey Searle
Unknown:
Diana Olsson
Unknown:
Philip Cunningham
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
John Humphry
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Conducted By:
Humphrey Searle
Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Argeia, daughter of Polycrates:
June Tobin
Polycrates, king of Samos:
Michael Hordern
Egyptian ambassador:
Heron Carvic
Herodotus, the historian:
Charles Simon
Amasis, king of Egypt:
Leon Quartermaine
Anacreon, the poet:
Kenneth Dight
Lydian ambassador:
Hugh Manning
Oroetes governor of Lydia:
Malcolm Hayes
Source: Radio Times

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