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Sunday Play

on BBC Radio 3

Armstrong's Last Goodnight by John Arden , adapted by Bennett Maxwell.
"To seek hot water beneath cauld ice
Surely it is a great follie;
I have socht for grace at a graceless face
Where there is none for my men and me."
Music arranged by Cedric Thorpe Davie
Director Stewart Conn
(First broadcast on the Third Programme in 1965)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Adapted By:
Bennett Maxwell.
Arranged By:
Cedric Thorpe Davie
Director:
Stewart Conn
Sir David Lindsay:
Leonard Maguire
English Commissioners:
Malcolm Terris, Hector Ross
Scots Commissioners:
John Graham, Michael Deacon
English Clerk:
William Fox
Scots Clerk:
Arthur Lawrence
Johnstone of Wamphray:
Ronald Baddiley
1st Armstrong:
Alex McAvoy
2nd Armstrong:
James Grant
John Armstrong of Gilnockie:
Moultrie Kelsall
Gilbert Eliot of Stobs:
Jack Stewart
Young Stobs:
Maitland Chandler
McGlass:
Leo Maguire
Gibiockie's wife:
Gudrun Ure

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