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Laughing Gas

on BBC Radio 4 FM

David Chandler's play of intrigue is set in Bristol in 1799. Dr Beddoes, founder of the Pneumatic Institute, wants to turn on the British public with controlled use of nitrous oxide.

Contributors

Writer:
David Chandler
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
Sawyers:
Dinsdale Landen
Beddoes:
Denys Hawthorne
Anna Beddoes:
Frances Jeater
Roget:
Gareth Armstrong
Coleridge:
Nicholas Boulton
Davy:
Robert Patterson
Smith:
Dominic Letts
Smythe:
Jonathan Tafler
Wedgewood:
John Baddeley
Mrs Barbauld:
Lala Lloyd
Tovey:
Tom Bevan

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