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Afternoon Theatre: The Balkan Trilogy: 1: The Great Fortune

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Olivia Manning
Dramatised for radio by Eric Ewens
with Anna Massey, Jack Shepherd and Aubrey Woods

The outbreak of the Second World War finds Guy Pringle, a young lecturer at the University of Bucharest, travelling to Romania with his wife of a few weeks...

(First broadcast in 1974)

Contributors

Author:
Olivia Manning
Dramatised by:
Eric Ewens
Director:
John Tydeman
Harriet:
Anna Massey
Guy:
Jack Shepherd
Yekimov:
Aubrey Woods
Clarence:
John Rye
McCann:
Denis McCarthy
Inchcape:
Manning Wilson
Woolley:
Godfrey Kenton
Sophie:
Magdalene Buznea
Galpin:
Hector Ross
Dobson:
Stephen Thorne
Bella:
Kate Coleridge
David Boyd:
David Timson
Klein:
Alan Dudley
Mrs Ramsden:
Betty Hardy
Miss Turner:
Gladys Spencer
Miss Truelove:
Betty Huntley-Wright

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