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The Shaw Festival: Captain Brassbound's Conversion

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A play for Puritans by Bernard Shaw
Starring Sybil Thorndike as Lady Cicely Waynflete, Cecil Parker as Sir Howard Hallam and Gabriel Woolf as Captain Brassbound

Shaw declared that 'adequate performance of Lady Cicely requires artistic faculty and personal attraction of a very rare order'. Dame Sybil brought all that, and more, to this portrayal. Narrator Alexander John
(First broadcast in 1967)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Director:
Graham Gauld
Narrator:
Alexander John
Lady Cicely Waynflete:
Sybil Thorndike
Sir Howard Hallam:
Cecil Parker
Captain Brassbound:
Gabriel Woolf
Drinkwater:
James McManus
Rankin:
Denys Hawthorne
Osman:
Frank Henderson
Marzo:
Robert Rietty
Redbrook:
Bernard Brown
Johnson:
Ralph Truman
Sidi el Assif:
Alaric Cotter
The Cadi:
Antony Viccars
Bluejacket:
Nigel Clayton
Capt Kearney:
John Justin
Source: Radio Times

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