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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: 1. Setting Off

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1. Setting Off

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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Classic tale of an intrepid knight and his squire. Stars Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins.

The 1605 classic adventure of an intrepid Spanish knight and his humble squire. Stars Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins.

Part of 4 Extra's Bernard Cribbins Day. The actor would have turned 94 on 29th December 2022.

The Adventures of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de Ie Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. 

Don Quixote dons his rusty armour, mounts his broken down horse and sets off with Sancho Panza, his faithful squire, to put the world to rights. 

Classic adventure first published in 1605. 

Staring Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins.

Dramatised in two parts by John Arden. 

Don Quixote .... Bob Grant
Sancho Panza .... Bernard Cribbins
Cervantes .... Ronald Baddiley
Aldonza .... Meg Johnson
Moor .... Geoffrey Banks
Innkeeper .... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Father Perez .... David Sumner
Barber-Surgeon .... Peter Wheeler
Housekeeper .... Kathleen Helme
Antonia .... Kate Lee
Dorothea .... Linda Gardner
Market boy .... Alan Parnaby
Serjeant .... Alan Meadows
Don Fernando .... Simon Molloy

Music composed by Stephen Boxer.

Director: Alfred Bradley 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1980.

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Cervantes' classic novel, adapted by John Arden with Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins

Cervantes' classic novel, adapted by John Arden and starring Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins

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