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Famous Gossips: 2: Parson Yorick, The Sentimental Traveller 1713-1768

BBC One
on BBC One London

Six literary immortals brought to life by six actors of today.

Parson Yorick, The Sentimental Traveller 1713-1768 played by Max Adrian who gossips about... a French duke and a passport, at Calais... a slight case of delicacy, at Amiens... a beautiful shop-girl, her pulse, a dwarf, and the temptations of a chambermaid, at Paris...
Introduced by Hugo Dyson.
Adapted from Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugo Dyson
Author (A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy):
Laurence Sterne
Designer:
Julia Trevelyan Oman
Producer:
Patrick Garland
Parson Yorick:
Max Adrian
A fat gentleman:
James Ure
A thin gentleman:
Jonathan Cecil
A Respectable Woman:
Dorothy-Rose Gribble
A demure girl:
Vivien Heilbron
Source: Radio Times

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