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The English Mummers
' .... perhaps we're at fault for calling Mummers' plays ' plays ' at all. They're not tragedy, comedy or farce: they seem to fall somewhere between a demonstration and ceremonial. And ceremonial endures because it is the form that carries significance ... ' In the last programme of the series. Harry Thompson looks at some of the reasons for the survival of the Mummers' play. Series producer ALASTAIR WILSON

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Harry Thompson
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Alastair Wilson
Source: Radio Times

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