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THE TOILERS OF THE SEA

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by VICTOR Hugo
Gilliatt disliked the figurehead of La Durande, so he carved a new one of Deruchette. When sailing home one night he saw a young man asleep on the Gild-Holm-'Ur rock, and knowing that it would soon be high tide and the rock submerged, he woke the young man and saved his life.
Part 6
Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by John POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Novel By:
Victor Hugo
Music By:
Ronald Binge
Produced By:
John Powell
Storyteller:
Antony Viccars
The Rev Joseph Caudray:
Gordon Gardner
The Rev Elihu Herode:
James Thomason
Déruchette:
Jo Manning Wilson
Gilliatt:
Nigel Graham
Captain Clubin:
Malcolm Terris
Lethierry:
David March
Tangrouille:
Alan Haines
Madame Vinchelez:
Gladys Spencer
Captain Marpole:
Haydn Jones
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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