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The Monday Play: Focus

on BBC Radio 4 FM

To celebrate Arthur Miller's 75th birthday, a world premiere of a radio adaptation of his only novel, "Focus". A powerful study of anti-Semitism in New York in the early 1940s.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Miller
Dramatist:
Wally K. Daly
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Newman:
Peter Marinker
Gertrude Hart:
Shelley Thompson
Finkelstein:
John Church
His father-in-law:
Leonard Fenton
Mrs Newman:
Helen Horton
Fr Coughlin:
Harry Towb
Finkelstein's father:
Cyril Shaps
Ahearn:
Brian Miller
Fred:
Peter Banks
Receptionist:
Tara Dominick
Paperboy:
Paul Downing
Gargan/Hotel manager:
Don Fellows
Carlson:
James Greene
Optician:
Tim Reynolds
Mallon:
David Bannerman
Stephens:
Nigel Carrington
Fat man:
Ronald Herdman
Priest:
Vincent Brimble
Youth:
Nicholas Gilbrook

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