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Of Thee I Sing

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A musical comedy by GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and MORR1E RYSKIND with lyrics by IRA GERSHWIN and music by GEORGE GERSHWIN The year is 1931 and the USA is in the throes of that uniquely American exercise in mass irrationality, the Presidential election....
Narrator BOB WALLACE
THE GRANT PARK ORCHESTRA AND
CHORUS
Musical producer and conductor NEWTON WAYLAND Adapted and directed by YURI RASOVSKY
(A National Radio Theatre of Chicago production)
Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Comedy By:
George S. Kaufman
Comedy By:
Morr1e Ryskind
Unknown:
Ira Gershwin
Music By:
George Gershwin
Narrator:
Bob Wallace
Conductor:
Newton Wayland
Directed By:
Yuri Rasovsky
John P Wintergreen:
John Cullum
Mary:
Mary Ernster
Throttlebottom:
Edgarmeyer
Diana Devereaux:
Jan Curtis
Fulton:
Ward Ohrman
French Ambassador:
Jim Harms
Gillhooley:
David-Cameron Anderson
Lippman:
Glenn Kovacevich
Senator Jones:
William Brown
Lyons:
Charles Shallenberg
Source: Radio Times

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