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Globe Theatre: 5: The Miser

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Moliere, translated by Miles Malleson
A series of six internationally renowned stage plays which, through simultaneous transmission by Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, can be shared by the largest English-speaking audience in the world.
With Michael Hordern as Harpagon, Eleanor Bron as Frosine, T. P. McKenna as Seigneur Anselm
A greedy old skinflint tries to dash his children's wedding plans and increase the contents of that moneybox he keeps hidden at the bottom of the garden....
Stereo
A BBC World Service/Radio 4 production
(Christopher Godwin is in "Noises Off" at the Savoy Theatre, London)
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Contributors

Author:
null Moliere
Translator:
Miles Malleson
Directed by:
Peter Kavanagh
Harpagon:
Michael Hordern
Frosine:
Eleanor Bron
Seigneur Anselm:
T. P. McKenna
Elise:
Julia Swift
Valere:
Nicholas Farrell
Cleante:
Jonathan Tafler
La Flèche:
Shaun Prendergast
Jacques:
Christopher Godwin
Manane:
Elaine Claxton
Justice:
Peter Woodthorpe
Monsieur Simon:
Ronald Herdman

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