Adapted for broadcasting, with a linking commentary in verse by Terence Tiller
Music composed and arranged by Elizabeth Poston
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
The Gloria sung by Alfred Deller
(counter-tenor)
The Shepherd's Song sung by Stanley Riley (bass)
Martin Boddey (tenor) and a boy soprano
This play, which dates from the early fifteenth century, forms part «f the famous Towneley MS. It is one of two ' Shepherd's Plays ' known to have been performed by the Wakefield guilds. Though it is strictry a Nativity play, its plot is almost entirely concerned with a comic sheep-stealing episode that has little to do with the larger theme