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Hi-Fi Theatre: Under the Volcano

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by MALCOLM LOWRY
Narrated by Paul Scofield
with Norman Rodway, June Tobin and Denys Hawthorne
in a radio version by Eric Ewens with music by Graham Collier
A radio adaptation of Lowry's classic study of a man, an ex-Consul, who struggles against the powers of darkness and of light. It is also a moving and tragic love story. Mexico at the time of the fiesta for the Day of the Dead, November 1939 and 1938.
(Norman Rodway is a member of the RSC)
(Broadcast last Friday. Repeated on Thursday at 7.30pm)

Contributors

Author:
Malcolm Lowry
Radio version by:
Eric Kwens
Music By:
Graham Collier
Director:
John Tydeman
Narrator:
Paul Scofield
Dr Arturo Vigil:
William Fox
Jacques Laruelle:
David March
Signor Bustamente:
Trader Faulkner
Consul:
Norman Rodway
Yvonne, his ex-wife:
June Tobin
Hugh, his half-brother:
Denys Hawthorne
Everard:
Gordon Dulieu
Cervantes:
Gregory De Polnay
Dios:
Andrew Branch
Policeman/Voice 2:
John Bull
Maria:
Eva Stuart
Voice 1:
Leonard Fenton
Source: Radio Times

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