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The Admirable Bashville: or Constancy Unrewarded

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by Bernard Shaw
with Margaret Wolfit, Lewis Fiander and Nigel Anthony

Borrowing the style - and occasionally a line - from earlier sources, the author relates, in Elizabethan blank verse, the passionate love story of a handsome young prizefighter and a beautiful heiress

(To be repeated on August 10)
(See page 36)

Contributors

Writer:
[George] Bernard Shaw
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Lydia Carew, a young lady of quality:
Margaret Wolfit
Casnel Byron, a prizefighter:
Lewis Fiander
Bob Mellish, his trainer:
Malcolm Hayes
Lucian Webber:
Kenneth Fortescue
Cerewayo, a Zulu chief:
Peter Pratt
Lord Worthington:
Lockwood West
Bashville, a footman:
Nigel Anthony
William Paradise, a bruiser:
Haydn Jones
Policeman:
Frederick Treves
Adelaide Gisborne:
Fabia Drake
Narrator:
Godfrey Kenton
[Actor]:
Peter Baldwin
[Actor]:
David Brierley
[Actor]:
Peter Tuddenham
[Actor]:
Garard Green
Source: Radio Times

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