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Award Winners: How Many Miles to Babylon?

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Jennifer Johnston, adapted by Denys Hawthorne
Winner of the "best adaptation" in the 1980 Society of Authors/Pye Awards to Radio.
With Robert Powell and Jim Norton

"Because I am an officer and a gentleman, they have given me notebooks, pen, ink and paper. So I write and wait. The guns throb constantly and louder up the line. The building trembles ... The fact that I have no future except what you can count in hours doesn't seem to disturb me unduly ..."

(BBC Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Author:
Jennifer Johnston
Adapted by:
Denys Hawthorne
Director:
Robert Cooper
Alec as a young man:
Robert Powell
Alec as a child:
Susan Sheridan
Padre/Patron:
Denys Hawthorne
Cave:
Allan McClelland
Alicia Moore:
June Tobin
Mr Moore:
John Welsh
Jerry as a child:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Jerry as a young man:
Jim Norton
Major Glendinning:
Haydn Jones
Bennett:
Nigel Anthony
Sgt Barry:
Harry Towb
Major:
Jonathan Scott
O'Keefe:
Sean Barrett
Source: Radio Times

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