(Born this day 1766)
A Radio Chronicle Play
Specially written for this performance by EDWIN LEWIS j
John Gough (A Blind Philosopher)
John Dalton (A Scientist) Rev. W. Johns (A Minister)
Sam Oram (An Early Cotton Master)
Hannah (A Widow)
Nancy Wilson
M. Pelletier (A French Scientist)
Jonathan Otley (President of the British Association) i 1st Narrator 2nd Narrator
The Play produced by D. E. ORMEROD
Incidental Music by THE NORTHERN WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Songs sung by MABEL SKELLEY (Soprano)
The scene opens in the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall in 1929, before the statue of John Dalton , and then changes to Kendal in 1793.