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Play in three acts by Christopher Hassall
[Starring] Robert Harris and Robert Farquharson.

Music composed and conducted by Leighton Lucas, with the Con Moto Choir. (Incorporating two songs written by the author for the original production at Canterbury)

The play begins in Trebizond in the year 4 B.C. and ends in Jerusalem in A.D. 30

(Recording of the broadcast on Christmas Day, 1946)

Contributors

Writer:
Christopher Hassall
Producer:
Felix Felton
Composer/Conductor:
Leighton Lucas
Singers:
The Con Moto Choir
Artaban, King of Trebizond:
Robert Harris
Melchior, King of Petra:
Mark Dignam
Balthazar, King of Sheba:
Dan Cunningham
Kaspar, an Indian ruler:
William Trent
Strabo, Geographer Royal to Artaban:
Harcourt Williams
The Muleteer:
Reginald Beckwith
Captain of the Muleteers:
Francis de Wolff
Herod the Great King of the Jews:
Robert Farquharson
Achiabus, his Chamberlain:
Frank Cochrane
Nicolaus of Damascus, Herod's biographer:
Patrick Troughton
Physician attending Herod:
Arthur Ridley
Blind man:
Alexander Sarner
Young man:
Laurence Payne
Robber:
Philip Cunningham
Messenger:
Andrew Faulds
Roman soldier:
Richard Carr
Laila, a housewife at Trebizond:
Gladys Spencer
Angel of the Tree:
Joseph O'Connor
Narrator:
Ian Cooper

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