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On the High Seas has come to mean a certain lawlessness and freedom. Black flags appear, complete with the device of skull and crossbones.
But there are also high seas where billows roll, and winds roar, and lightnings flash, and all the properties come into action. The programme has storms, mutinies and pirates, but like every good sea turn ends with the hornpipe.
The Ship Sails

The Deil's awa' wi' the Exciseman

Mutiny-The 'Jolly Roger' is Hoisted
Orchestra
Pirate Music from 'Peter Pan'
Treasure Island
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
(A Scene from the Dramatised Version)

The Pirates of Penarth
A Play by Hilda Isaacs
In a hostelry near Cogan Pill, some men, mostly sailors, are drinking and dicing. It is ten o'clock on a stormy evening in September, 1577. The men are discussing the notorious pirate, Captain Clark, of the Black Devil.
(Note: The incidents in the sketch are founded on fact; it has been compiled from the evidence of the Commissioners of Queen Elizabeth.)

Orchestra
The Hornpipe

Contributors

Author (The Pirates of Penarth):
Hilda Isaacs
Richard Herbert, of Cogan:
J.R. Payne
Bessie, a serving maid:
Bronwen Davies
Thomas Matthews, tailor:
Jack James
Howell, a dyer:
G. Lynch-Clarke
Captain Clark, the pirate:
T. Hannam-Clark
George Herbert:
Sidney Evans
Alys:
Maisie Jones
Mistress Hughes:
Mary MacDonald-Taylor
Stradling, a commissioner:
Jack Jones
Several Sailors:
[Actors uncredited]

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