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Danton's Death

on BBC Radio 3

Georg Buchner's tragedy newly translated from the German by Victor Price
with

Music selected from the works of C.P.E. Bach and played by Lionel Salter on a contemporary piano at the Colt Clavier Collection, Bethersden

(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre Player)
See page 44

Contributors

Author:
Georg Buchner
Translated by:
Victor Price
Music played by:
Lionel Salter
Producer:
Martin Esslin
Danton:
Joss Ackland
Robespierre:
Kenneth Haigh
St Just:
Ronald Pickup
Julie:
Joan Miller
Marion:
Glenda Jackson
Camille Desmoulins:
David Spenser
Legendre:
Michael Deacon
Herault-Sechelles:
Frederick Treves
Lacroix:
John Pullen
Philippeau:
Peter Williams
Fabre d'Eglantine:
Michael Spice
Mercier:
Malcolm Hayes
Tom Payne:
John Bentley
Barere:
Hector Ross
Collot d'Herbois:
Godfrey Kenton
Billaud-Varennes:
John Bryning
Chaumette:
Wilfrid Carter
Foufluier-Tinville, the public prosecutor.:
Rolf Lefebvre
Amar:
John Wyse
Vouland:
Michael Spice
Herman, Judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal:
John Baddeley
Simon, a retired Prompter:
Lockwood West
Simon's wife:
Hilda Kriseman
Laflotte:
Nicholas Edmett
General Dillon:
Wilfred Carter
Lucile Desmoulins:
Gretta Gouriet
Rosalie:
Pauline Letts
Adelaide:
Kathleen Helme
Narrator:
Denis McCarthy
Other parts played by:
Alaric Cotter
Other parts played by:
Jan Edwards
Other parts played by:
Marjorie Westbury
Other parts played by:
Peter Baldwin
Other parts played by:
Brian Haines
Other parts played by:
Peter Pratt
Other parts played by:
Ralph Truman
Other parts played by:
Antony Viccars
Other parts played by:
Francis de Wolff

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