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A comedy by Antony Brown
Adapted by the author
[Starring] Baliol Holloway, Eleanor Summerfield and Howieson Culff

Time: The Present
Scene: A wharf at Rotherhithe
(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on Friday)

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Antony Brown
Production:
Mary Hope Allen
Jack, a sailor:
Allan McClelland
Troop, an evangelist:
Baliol Holloway
Philip, apprentice to Burke:
Michael Warre
Joe Burke, lighterman:
Howieson Culff
His men - Parsnip Nose:
Preston Lockwood
His men - Diamond:
Frank Atkinson
Stella, Burke's daughter:
Eleanor Summerfield
Ma Trotman, Parsnip Nose's mother:
Patience Collier
Captain of a French ship:
Olaf Pooley
Detective-Sgt Pooley:
Cyril Conway

(sung in English)
Part 6
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Kathleen Joyce (contralto)
William Herbert (tenor)
Norman Walker (bass)
Continuo:
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord)
Geraint Jones (organ)
The Cantata Singers
The Jacques Orchestra
(Leader, Irene Richards )
Conducted by Reginald Jacques

Contributors

Soprano:
Elsie Suddaby
Contralto:
Kathleen Joyce
Tenor:
William Herbert
Bass:
Norman Walker
Cellist:
Harvey Phillips
Harpsichordist:
Thornton Lofthouse
Organist:
Geraint Jones
Singers:
The Cantata Singers
Musicians:
The Jacques Orchestra
Leader:
Irene Richards
Conductor:
Reginald Jacques

Modernised, adapted for broadcasting, and produced by Terence Tiller

This medieval poem was at one time attributed to Chaucer. It is now known that the work must be attributed to an anonymous fifteenth-century lady, but it is enough to say that Chaucer need not have been ashamed of the work had it in fact been his.

Contributors

Adapted by/Producer:
Terence Tiller
The Authoress:
Jill Balcon
Perseverance:
Mary O'Farrell
The Lady Loyalty:
Julia Lang
Also taking part:
Patricia Brent
Also taking part:
Patience Collier
Also taking part:
Derek Hart
Also taking part:
Diana Maddox

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