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' A PARSONAGE IN THE HESPERIDES '

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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A portrait of the lyric poet Robert Herrick , vicar of Dean Prior in Devon
Written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon. Music by Henry Lawes , Nicholas Laneare , and others, trans-scribed from contemporary songbooks by Douglas Cleverdon and arranged by Elizabeth Poston : with Kate Winter , Rene Soames , Alec Whittaker (oboe d'amore), the Aeolian String Quartet, and John Ticehurst (harpsichord)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Herrick
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon.
Music By:
Henry Lawes
Music By:
Nicholas Laneare
Unknown:
Douglas Cleverdon
Arranged By:
Elizabeth Poston
Unknown:
Kate Winter
Unknown:
Rene Soames
Oboe:
Alec Whittaker
Oboe:
John Ticehurst
Robert Herrick:
Carleton Hobbs
Thomas Hunt:
Alexander Sarner
Joan:
Avis Scutt
Lucia:
Julian Orde
Julia:
Belle Chrystau
Prew:
Molly Rankin
Thomasln:
Cherry Cottreu
Sir William Herrick:
Frank Cochran*
Ben Jonson:
Bryan Powley
Charles Cotton:
Heron Carvic
Nicholas Wilkes:
William Trent
Source: Radio Times

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