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A History of Disillusion 1918-1933
Written by Correlli Barnett and Ronald Blythe.
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave.
And the voices of David Bauer, Peter Bridgmont, Anton Diffring, Felix Felton, Walter Hertner, Carl Jaffe, Murray Kash, Cyril Luckham, Alec Mango, Bill Nagy.
With Jim Snowball, Unemployed ex-Naval man; Andrew Kippie, Unemployed shipyard engineer; Jack Jones, C.B.E., Trades Union Official and miner during the 1920s; Dr. Maud Menzies, Doctor in Glasgow during the Depression; Mrs. Betty Stevenson, Daughter of an unemployed craftsman; Charles Simmons, Member of Ramsay MacDonald's Government; Wal Hannington, National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement; Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler's Press Adviser; Alex Natan, German journalist

Series produced by Tony Essex in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Contributors

Writer:
Correlli Barnett
Writer:
Ronald Blythe
Narrator:
Sir Michael Redgrave
Voices:
David Bauer
Voices:
Peter Bridgmont
Voices:
Anton Diffring
Voices:
Felix Felton
Voices:
Walter Hertner
Voices:
Carl Jaffe
Voices:
Murray Kash
Voices:
Cyril Luckham
Voices:
Alec Mango
Voices:
Bill Nagy
Interviewee:
Jim Snowball
Interviewee:
Andrew Kippie
Interviewee:
Jack Jones
Interviewee:
Dr. Maud Menzies
Interviewee:
Betty Stevenson
Interviewee:
Charles Simmons
Interviewee:
Wal Harrington
Interviewee:
Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl
Interviewee:
Alex Natan
Producer:
Tony Essex

A duel of words and wit between Jimmy Edwards with Pauline Devaney, Edwin Apps and Patrick Campbell with Pixie Weir, Vasco Lazzolo.
Referee, Joe Melia
(Jimmy Edwards is appearing in "Big Bad Mouse" at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London)

Contributors

Team captain:
Jimmy Edwards
Panellist:
Pauline Devaney
Panellist:
Edwin Apps
Team captain:
Patrick Campbell
Panellist:
Pixie Weir
Panellist:
Vasco Lazzolo
Referee:
Joe Melia
"Call My Bluff" devised by:
Mark Goodson
"Call My Bluff" devised by:
Bill Todman
Title cartoons:
null Emmwood
Producer:
Bryan Sears

A journey through the modern drama written by Michael Elliott and Casper Wrede who introduce their programme about the reasons why the theatre has become anti-theatre in an article on page 12
In scenes from plays by Buchner, Strindberg, Chekhov, O'Neill, Ibsen, Genet, Brecht, Beckett and other dramatists.

Contributors

Writer/Directed and produced by:
Michael Elliott
Writer/Directed and produced by:
Casper Wrede
The Director:
Michael Elliott
The Actor:
James Maxwell
The Company:
Kenneth Adams
The Company:
Coral Atkins
The Company:
Michael Goodliffe
The Company:
Dilys Hamlett
The Company:
Esmond Knight
The Company:
Rosalind Knight
The Company:
Catherine Lacey
The Company:
Enid Lorimer
The Company:
Nita Lorraine
The Company:
James Maxwell
The Company:
Ernest Milton
The Company:
Lee Montague
The Company:
Gwen Nelson
The Company:
Trevor Peacock
The Company:
Malcolm Tierney
The Company:
Michael Wells

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