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5.10-5.45 The Fate of the City
A play for television by Winifred Holmes.
Scene: Ancient Greece
Another performance next Sunday
(Ronald Adam appears by permission of Laurence Olivier Productions, Ltd.)

Contributors

Writer (The Fate of the City):
Winifred Holmes
Producer (The Fate of the City):
Naomi Capon
Baucis, an old peasant woman:
Christine Silver
Philemon, her husband:
Richard Goolden
Zeus:
Ronald Adam
Hermes:
Robert Eddison
The merchant:
Norman Mitchell
The woman:
Norah Gaussen
The first gambler:
Geoffrey Hibbert
The second gambler:
Michael Turner

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