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('L'Homme de Cendres')
A Don Juan play by Andre Obey
Translated from the French by Raf de la Torre
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
[Starring] James McKechnie

The action takes place in the city of Seville early in the sixteenth century.
(Yesterday's recorded broadcast)
(Miriam Karlin is in "Spring Song" at the Embassy, Swiss Cottage, London)
Peter Forster writes on page 21

During the interval in the performance of the play (9.5-9.15 approx.):
16th-century Vihuela Music
played by Emilio Pujol and Andres Segovia
on gramophone records

Contributors

Author:
Andre Obey
Translated by:
Raf de la Torre
Radio Adaptation/Production:
Raymond Raikes
Men and women of the people:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Men and women of the people:
Bettina Dickson
Men and women of the people:
Amanda Fox
Men and women of the people:
Monica Grey
Men and women of the people:
Garard Green
Men and women of the people:
Michael O'Halloran
Men and women of the people:
Alan Reid
Men and women of the people:
Norman Mitchell
Men and women of the people:
Elizabeth London
Men and women of the people:
John Cazabon
The Watch:
Ernest Sefton
The King:
James Dale
The Mother of Juan:
Dorothy Black
Catalino:
Charles Leno
The Cardinal Inquisitor:
Dennis Arundell
The Councillor:
Frank Tickle
The Commander:
Allan Jeayes
Alvar:
David Peel
Anna:
Dorothy Gordon
Elvira:
Hermione Hannen
Concepcion:
Miriam Karlin
Don Juan:
James McKechnie

Five poems by Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Read in English by Jill Balcon and David King-Wood, and in French by Julien Bertheau, Renée Faure, and Gerard Philipe. New verse translations by L.E. Jones, Naomi Lewis, John Petrie, and Terence Tiller
Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Poet:
Theophile Gautier
Reader:
Jill Balcon
Reader:
David King-Wood
Reader:
Julien Bertheau
Reader:
Renée Faure
Reader:
Gerard Philipe
Translator:
L E. Jones
Translator:
Naomi Lewis
Translator:
John Petrie
Translator:
Terence Tiller
Programme arranged and introduced by:
Rayner Heppenstall

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