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Play Festival: Artist Descending a Staircase

on BBC Radio 3

by TOM STOPPARD
This is the first from a selection of ten notable Plays, specially written for radio, which have been broadcast on Radio 3 or the former Third Programme over the last 25 years.
Three very old artists, who have been friends since early manhood, share an attic. Now one of them is dead. The circumstances are mysterious. Evidence concernIng the manner of his death exists on a tape-recording. But what is Truth?
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast in 1972) A fine play which could only have been a radio play. (THE LISTENER)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Martello:
Stephen Murray
Donner:
Carleton Hobbs
Beauchamp:
Rolf Lefebvre
the young Martelto (Banjo:
Michael Spice
the young Donner:
Dinsdale Landen
the young Beauchamp:
Peter Egan
Sophie:
Fiona Walker

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