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Studio 3: St Winefred's Well

on BBC Radio 3

A verse drama left in a fragmentary state by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) and completed and shaped by Anthony Burgess, who also wrote the music.
With Elizabeth Mansfield as St Winefred and Edward Petherbridge as St Beuno.
In AD 660 Caradoc, a Welsh chieftain, desired Winefred, a virgin. When she refused him, he decapitated her. Her uncle St Beuno restored her to life, and a well, a source of pilgrimage ever since, gushed forth on the site.
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Contributors

Author:
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Completed and adapted by/Music:
Anthony Burgess
Musical Director:
Sydney Sagar
Flautist:
Roger Armstrong
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
St Winefred:
Elizabeth Mansfield
St Beuno:
Edward Petherbridge
Caradoc:
Ioan Meredith
Teryth:
Hugh Dickson
Cadwaldr:
Christopher Good
Llewelyn:
Andrew Rivers
Gwenlo:
Meg Davies
Other parts played by:
Mary Wimbush
Other parts played by:
Jane Slavin

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