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A Hyperbolical Anachronism by Maurice A. R. Horspool
Cast
Time, 54 B.C. (or thereabouts)
Place, Tyneside (or thereabouts)
Produced by Cecil McGivern
(Stagshaw Programme)
Maurice Horspool , who has written this comic-history extravaganza of Ancient Britain, will be remembered as the author of Guineas for the Ghost. Originally, the play was written for the stage, hut the radio adaptation retains all the entertainment bound up in the plot-the tale of a brontosaurus, intent upon making a meal of women and children. Listeners will learn how the legionaries and the Britons tried to rid themselves of the menace by building a wall.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice A. R. Horspool
Produced By:
Cecil McGivern
Unknown:
Maurice Horspool
Caius Julius Cxsar, author of ' De Bello Gallico ' (in preparation):
Hector Ross
Titus, his aide-de-camp and private secretary:
H. V Taylor
Wonk, Chieftain of the Brigantes:
Ernest Lyall
Trippa, his daughter:
Ursula Gilhespie
Bung, his second-in-command:
Alf Simpson
Balbus, Sergeant in 10th Legion:
W. Blomfield
Roman Soldiers and Brigantes:
T H Mearis And The Felling Male Singers

Regional Programme Northern

About Regional Programme

Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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