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Christmas: Squire Headlong invites his - very chatty - friends of learning to a party.

It’s Christmas, and Squire Headlong invites his - very chatty - friends of learning to a party. Stars Michael Horden.

Winter, 1815: Harry Headlong, like all Welsh squires, is fond of shooting, hunting and drinking. But he becomes seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of philosophers and dilettanti.

Sir Michael Hordern narrates Thomas Love Peacock's novella.

Escot. the deteriorationist     ......    Daniel Massey 
Foster, the perfectibilian    ......    Ronald Lacey
Jenkison, the statu-quo-ite     ......    John Grillo
Cranium, the craniologist    ......    John Horsley 

Headlong    ......    William Simons
Cephalis    ......    Polly James
Gaster    ......    Alan Dudley
Milestone    ......    Andrew Branch
Gall    ......    Simon Cuff
Norman    ......    BirdPanscope
Tenorina    ......    Caroline Gruber 
MacLaurel    ......    Michael Deacon
O'Prism    ......    John Tate 
Chromatic    ......    John Baddeley
Graziosa    ......    Joan Walker

Dramatised by James Saunders.

Producer: Matthew Walters
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1988

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