- Author:
- Christopher Marlowe
- Adapted by/Producer:
- Peter Watts
- From the acting version by:
- Tyrone Guthrie
- From the acting version by:
- Donald Wolfit
- Music composed by:
- John Gardner
- Music conducted by:
- Gilbert Vinter
- Musicians:
- BBC Midland Light Orchestra
- Leader:
- Frank Thomas
- Singers:
- A section of the BBC Midland Chorus
- Prologue:
- Howieson Culff
- Pedro Mexia, the Historian:
- Eric Anderson
- Mycetes, King of Persia:
- Richard Hurndall
- Cosroe, his brother:
- Stanley van Beers
- Meander, a Persian lord:
- John Garside
- Theridamas, a Persian general:
- Valentine Dyall
- Menophon, a Persian councillor:
- Garard Green
- Ortigius, a Persian lord:
- Brian Hayes
- Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd:
- Donald Wolfit
- Zenocrate, an Egyptian Princess:
- Joan Hart
- Agydas, a Median lord:
- Marne Maitland
- Techelles, a Scythian:
- Harry Andrews
- Usumcazane, a Scythian:
- Stephen Jack
- Anippe, maid to Zenocrate:
- Nancy Nevinson
- A Turkish Basso:
- Wyndham Milligan
- Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks:
- Alan MacNaughtan
- King of Fez:
- Garard Green
- King of Morocco:
- Hamilton Dyce
- King of Argier:
- John Gay
- Zabina, Queen to Bajazeth:
- Margaret Rawlings
- Ebea, her maid:
- Rosamund Greenwood
- The Soldan of Egypt:
- Francis de Wolff
- Capolin, an Egyptian captain:
- Malcolm Graeme
- King of Arabia, betrothed to Zenocrate:
- Patrick Troughton
- The Governor of Damascus:
- Hamilton Dyce
- [Actor]:
- Arthur Ridley
- [Actor]:
- Franklyn Bellamy
- [Actress]:
- Diana Kimpton
- [Actress]:
- Ann Totten
- [Actress]:
- Olive Kirby
