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Selected for Friday
Persons from Porlock
This Is the last radio play written and oroduced by Louis MacNeice
I People have invited me along and I always make a point of being there. In Wookey Hole-in the Trou de la Creuse - excuse my accent, it's because I come from Porlock.'
Coleridge was interrupted in the writing of ' Kubla Khan. ' We all have our own Persons from Porlock to excuse our failure to finish a masterpiece. *
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Contributors

Unknown:
Kubla Khan.
Hank:
Jon Hollason
Sarah:
Elizabeth Morgan
Peter:
Peter Claughton
Mervyn:
Norman Wynne
Mother:
Mary O'Farrell
Maggie:
Margaret Gordon
Donald:
Tom Watson
Bailiff:
Charles Leno
Doctor:
Kenneth Hyde
The Person:
William Eedi E
Source: Radio Times

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