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Festival of Radio Drama ' THE RESCUE'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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A melodrama for broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey by Edward Sackville-West with Stephen Murray , Lydia Sherwood Leon Quartermaine , Jeffrey Segal
Music composed by Benjamin Britten
Singing Parts: mourners and naiads sung by the Ambrosian Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by John Hollingsworth
Production by Val Gielgud
PART 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Sackville-West
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Lydia Sherwood
Unknown:
Leon Quartermaine
Unknown:
Jeffrey Segal
Composed By:
Benjamin Britten
Conducted By:
John Hollingsworth
Production By:
Val Gielgud
Phemius:
Leon Quartermaine
Mentor:
Brewster Mason
Eurymachus:
Edward Jewesbury
Halitherses:
Norman Wynne
His wife:
Ella Milne
Machaon:
Frank Partington
Callidice:
Annette Kelly
Irus:
Jeffrey Segal
Leodes:
Philip Ingram
Penelope:
Lydia Sherwood
Eurynome:
Judy Bailey
Telemachus:
Denis Goacher
Euryclea:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Coxswain:
Trevor Martin
First sailor:
Harry Hutchinson
Second sailor:
Bruce Stewart
Third sailor:
Gordon Davies
Odysseus:
Stephen Murray
Eumaeus:
Norman Wynne
Antinous:
Trevor Martin
Peisander:
Bruce Stewart
Agelaus:
Brian Oulton
Amphinomus:
Leonard Trolley
Leocritus:
Eric Francis
Otesippus:
Gordon Davies
Eurydamas:
Frank Partington
Noemon:
Arthur Ridley
Medon:
Charles Maunsell
Meianthius:
Peter Neil
Alastor:
Humphrey Morton
Athene:
Marion Berry-Hart
Athene:
Beryl Hatt
Apollo:
Ranken Bushby
Hermea:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Artemis:
Nancy Thomas

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