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The Monday Play: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Dramatised from the trial transcripts by Peter Goodchild and recorded in the studios of WFMT Chicago.
Twenty-five years ago, the streets of Chicago erupted into violent confrontation between police and demonstrators. There followed one of the most compelling and bizarre trials in American legal history.
Featuring the voices of Thomas Foran and William Kunstler (lawyers); David Dellinger , Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale (defendants); Jean Fritz (juror) and Margie Fritz-Birch ; John Schultz (historian); Studs Terkel (journalist) and Allen Ginsberg (witness). ,
, , , , , American producer Susan Albert Lowenberg
Directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theochans
A BBC/Los Angeles Theatre Works/WFMTCofroduction

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Goodchild
Unknown:
Thomas Foran
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William Kunstler
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David Dellinger
Unknown:
Tom Hayden
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Bobby Seale
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Jean Fritz
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Margie Fritz-Birch
Unknown:
John Schultz
Unknown:
Allen Ginsberg
Producer:
Susan Albert Lowenberg
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Directed By:
John Theochans
Judge Hoffman:
George Murdoch
Thomas Foran:
Gary Houston
Richard Schultz:
Tom Amandes
William Kunstler:
Mike Nussbaum
Leonard Weinglass:
Jeff Still
Bobby Seale:
E Milton Wheeler
Tom Hayden:
Kevin Gudahl
David Dellinger:
Tony Mockus
Abbte Hoffman:
David Schwimmer
Allen Ginsberg:
Richard Fire
Pierson/Frapolly:
Andrew White
Mayor Daley/Marshall:
George Czarnecki
Deputy Mayor Stahl:
Ron West
Kristi King/Linda Morse:
Christine Dunford
Mrs PetersonlClerk:
Peggy Roeder
Spectators:
Brian McChristian
Spectators:
Chet Grissom
Spectators:
Michael Quaintance
Spectators:
Jonathan F McClain
Spectators:
Dayna Worland
Spectators:
Carl Coash
Spectators:
Tangy Harper

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