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Amphitryon

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A comedy by Dryden (1690)
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Watts
Music arranged and conducted by Dennis Arundeld from themes of Purcell

Singers: Marion Lowe, Gerald Davies and Roderick Jones
(The music is recorded)

Moliere's Amphitryon (1668), translated by John Ozell, is to be broadcast on Tuesday at 9.45; and Amphitryon 38 by S.N. Behrman, from the French of Jean Giraudoux (1929), on Saturday at 6.0.

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Watts
Conducted By:
Dennis Arundeld
Singers:
Marion Lowe
Singers:
Gerald Davies
Singers:
Roderick Jones
Translated By:
John Ozell
Unknown:
S. N. Behrman
Amphitryon, a Theban general:
John Wyse
Phoebus Apollo:
Godfrey Kenton
Mercury:
Frank Duncan
Jupiter:
Valentine Dyall
Night:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Alcmena, wife to Amphitryon:
Denise Bryer
Phaedira, her waiting-woman:
Avice Landone
Bromia, wife to Sosia:
Doris Rogers
Sosia, Amphitryon's servant:
Charles Leno
Judge Gripus:
Hugh Manning
Polydas:
Donald Eccles
Tranio:
Rolf Lefebvre
Source: Radio Times

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