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Diarmuid and Grainne

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A radio play by Padraic Fallon
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson

(BBC recording)

(Douglas Robinson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

(To be repeated on Thursday at 8.5)

Peter Forster writes on page 6

During the Interval (3.50-4.0 app.): C.P.E. Bach
Three Sonatas for wind instruments played by the London Baroque Ensemble,
Conductor, Karl Haas
(on gramophone records)

followed by an interlude at 4.50

Contributors

Writer:
Padraic Fallon
Music composed by:
Elizabeth Poston
Conductor:
Douglas Robinson
Production:
Frederick Bradnum
The Narrator:
Denis McCarthy
Diarmuid:
Paul Connell
Grainne:
Adrienne Corri
The High King Cormac:
Jack MacGowran
Finn, leader of the Fianna:
William Devlin
Ossian, his son:
T. St John Barry
Oscar, grandson of Finn:
Harry Towb
Caolte, comrade of Finn:
Wilfrid Brambell
Diorruine, son of Dobar O Baoiscne:
Allan McClelland
Aodh, son of Andela:
Robert Mooney
Aonghus, son of Art:
Cecil Brock
The Herald:
Olaf Pooley
The Giant Master of the Quicken-tree:
Norman Shelley
The Green Planet:
Willoughby Gray
The Boar:
Lionel Ngakane
Angus/A young man:
Donovan Winter
A runner:
Murray Hayne
A soldier/A servant:
Davld Lalng
Goli/A soldier:
Wyndham Milligan
A father/A countryman:
Tony Quinn
Conan/A father:
O'Donovan Shiell
A countryman/A father:
Charles Maunsell

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