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The Leper Who Made People Sing

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Written and produced by Alan Burgess
with Earl Cameron

When Harcourt White was sixteen years old he was attending a mission school in Eastern Nigeria. He was an alert, intelligent youngster with a bright future before him. Then one day he noticed the ominous white markings upon his hands. It was leprosy-and that meant he was condemned to squalid isolation on a sandbank.
(The recorded broadcast of May 16, 1960, in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Alan Burgess
Harcourt White:
Earl Cameron
Adamma White:
Nadia Catouse
John:
David Bird
Hilda:
Thea Wells
Chief of Police:
Christopher Carlos
Inugu:
Frank Singuineau
Resident:
Charles Simon
Doctor:
Douglas Storm
Boy:
Nigel Anthony
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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