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The King's Favourite

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Based on Madame de Pompaaour by NANCY MITPORD adapted for radio by ALAN MELVILLE
2; If there has to be a mistress with Moira Lister Edward de Souza and Alan Melville
A sequence of three programmes depicting the colourful life at the court of Louis XV.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Moira Lister is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville; Edward de Souza in ' The Philanthropist ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)

Contributors

Radio By:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Moira Lister
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Producer:
Norman Wright
Unknown:
Moira Lister
Unknown:
Mrs Markham
Narrator:
Alan Melville
LOUiS XV EDWARD:
De Souza
Mme de Pompadour:
Moira Lister
M de Bernis:
David Timson
M de Gontaut:
Patrick Tull
Marquise de la Ferté:
Marcot Boyd
The Queen:
Pauline Letts
Mme de Hausset:
Cecile Chevreau
M Ie Comte de Maurepas:
John Samson
Comte d'Argenson:
Geoffrey Matthews
Due de Richelieu:
John Chandos
Court Official:
Robin Browne
Source: Radio Times

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