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Last of the series of plays chronicling imaginary meetings between historical characters.
A Song at Twilight written by Edwin Pearce , and starring the late Bruce Hubbard British Socialist radical
Aneurin Bevan invites the American singer and militant black activist Paul Robeson to sing at the 1958 Eisteddfod. Robeson accuses Bevan of selling out on the H-bomb question. Bevan counters that Robeson, a victim of McCarthyism, needlessly sacrificed his own career by not realising that pragmatism must inform political principle.
Producer Andy Park : Director Charles Gormley 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Written By:
Edwin Pearce
Unknown:
Bruce Hubbard
Unknown:
Aneurin Bevan
Unknown:
Paul Robeson
Producer:
Andy Park
Director:
Charles Gormley
Paul Robeson:
Bruce Hubbard
Aneurin Bevan:
Glynowen
Essie Robeson:
Carmen Munroe
Jennie Lee Bevan:
Dorothy Paul
David Evans:
Brian Ellis

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