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Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene (Omnibus)

Episode 1/2

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Part of 4 Extra's Bernard Cribbins Day. The actor would have turned 94 on 29th December 2022.

Graham Green's comic 'entertainment', set in rural Spain a few years after the death of Franco.

Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop, with unexpected consequences.

Starring Bernard Cribbins.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Father Quixote ...... Bernard Cribbins
Sancho ...... Philip Jackson
Teresa ...... Susan Jameson
The Italian Bishop ...... Sean Baker
The Spanish Bishop ...... Brian Protheroe
Father Herrera ...... Nick Underwood
Shop Assistant ...... James Lailey
Guardia 1 ...... Sam Rix
Guardia 2 ...... Sean Baker
Guardia 3 ...... Tom Forrister

Director: Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. Show less

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