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Misanthrope

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[Starring] Laidman Browne with Nigel Stock and John Humphry in Menander's 'Misanthrope' ('Dyscolos'): the only complete comedy by Menander in existence (discovery first reported in 1957)
English translation by Philip Vellacott
Music composed by Thomas Eastwood
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes

Introduced by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius Professor of Greek Elect, University of Oxford, who has acted as textual adviser
(BBC recording: third broadcast)

followed by an interlude at 8.5

Contributors

Author:
null Menander
Translation by:
Philip Vellacott
Music composed by:
Thomas Eastwood
Adapted by/Production:
Raymond Raikes
Introduced by/Textual Adviser:
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra conducted by:
Harry Newstone
Pan, the god of country life:
Jon Rollason
Cnemon, a 'crusty' old farmer:
Laidman Browne
Myrrhine, his daughter, who lives with him:
Sheila Grant
Simice, his slave-woman who also lives with him:
Sylvia Coleridge
His Wife, who does not live with him:
Catherine Salkeld
Gorgias, her son by a former marriage:
Nigel Stock
Daos their old slave:
George Hagan
Sostratos, a wealthy young man:
John Humphry
His Mother:
Janet Burnell
His Sister:
Joan Matheson
Chaereas, his parasite:
Derek Smith
Pyrrhias, his slave-boy:
David Spencer
Callipides, his father, a wealthy farmer:
George Merritt
Getas, their head slave:
Charles Leno
Sicon, their hired cook:
Geoffrey Matthews

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