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Abraham Lincoln

on BBC Home Service Basic

In commemoration of the centenary of his assassination
A play by John Drinkwater adapted for radio by Anthony Cornish
with Michael Hordern and Mary O'Farrell

'Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.'

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Contributors

Author:
John Drinkwater
Adapted by/Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Chronicler:
Douglas Storm
Susan:
Pamela Craig
Timothy Cuffney:
George Woolley
Samuel Stone:
John Ruddock
Mrs Mary Lincoln:
Mary O'Farrell
Abraham Lincoln:
Michael Hordern
Johnson White:
Peter Bartlett
Caleb Jennings:
Peter Marinker
William Seward, Secretary of State:
David March
Mr Slaney, Lincoln's secretary:
John Ruddock
Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General:
Anthony Woodruff
Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury:
George Woolley
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy:
Stephen Thorne
Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior:
Tony Leary
Mrs Goliath Blow:
Joan Sanderson
Mrs Otherly:
Joanna Hopkins
Frederick Douglass:
Frank Singuineau
Edwin Stanton, Secretary for War:
John Ruddock
General Grant:
Stephen Thorne
Captain Malins:
Tony Leary
William Scott:
Gordon Gardner
General Meade:
David March
General Robert E. Lee:
Peter Bartlett
A Doctor:
George Woolley

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