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by John Bunyan.
Adapted for television by H.D.C. Pepler.
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
This programme will be repeated on Sunday, April 9
This is an entirely new dramatisation of Bunyan's masterpiece. Although cuts have been made to turn the story into dialogue form, nearly all the familiar characters remain, and the glorious language of the allegory, written more than 250 years ago, cannot fail to make this a notable television occasion.
All the incidental music has been culled from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources.
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Contributors

Author:
John Bunyan
Adapted for television by:
H.D.C. Pepler.
Incidental music collected and arranged by:
Lionel Salter
Dance arranger:
Antony Tudor
Musicians:
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader:
Boris Pecker
Conductor:
Hyam Greenbaum
Production:
Stephen Thomas
Bunyan:
Dennis Arundell (by permission of O'Bryen, Linnit, and Dunfee)
Christian:
Alan Bourne Webb
Evangelist and Envy:
Bruce Adams
Pliable and By-Ends:
Charles Peters
Obstinate and Clerk to the Court:
D.G. Milford
Worldly Wiseman and Judge Hate-good:
Lawrence Hanray
Hopeful:
Guy Verney
Porter and Superstition:
Douglas Allen
Discretion:
Margaret Pepler (by permission of the Vic-Wells Management)
Charity:
Kathleen Hilditch (by permission of the Vic-Wells Management)
Prudence:
Therese Langfield
Piety:
Ann Gee
Apollyon:
Alured Weigall
Faithful:
Robert Eddison
Talkative and Diffidence:
Charlotte Leigh (by permission of Herbert Farjeon)
Giant Despair:
H.D.C. Pepler
Juror:
Wilfred Franks

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