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The Man in the Iron Mask

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Historical detective story for broadcasting, by John Dickson Carr.
This play is not a romance. No character is fictitious, every scene - except those dealing with the solution of the mystery, which must always be conjectural - is historically true, and has been reconstructed from the spoken or written words of the persons concerned.

Contributors

Writer:
John Dickson Carr
Producer:
John Cheatle
First Narrator:
Bryan Powley
Second Narrator:
Edgar Norfolk
M. de St. Mars, Governor of the Bastille:
Stanley Lathbury
The Abbe Giraut, Chaplain of the Bastille:
Eric Lugg
King Charles II:
Malcolm Keen
Henrietta, Duchesse d'Orleans, his sister:
Cherry Cottrell
King Louis the Fourteenth:
Ernest Thesiger
M. Hughes de Lionne, French Foreign Minister:
Robert Farquharson
Henry Bennet, Lord Arlington, British Secretary of State:
Ronald Simpson
M. Colbert de Croissy, French Ambassador to England:
Cyril Gardiner
Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castelmaine:
Lydia Sherwood
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham:
Ernest Jay
The Sieur de Vauroy, King's Lieutenant at Dunkirk:
Carl Bernard
Maid of Honour:
Jenny Lovelace
Innkeeper:
Amy Veness

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