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of Euripides
Translated by Richard Aldington
Music by John Hotchkis
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
Characters in order of speaking:
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate) and a section of the London Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Thomas Matthews ) Conducted by the composer
This is one of Euripides' earliest works (438 B.C.), different in tone though recognisably from the same hand as his later, greater tragedies; and, incidentally, one Greek play with a happy ending.... It deals with Admetus, who tn return for entertaining Apollo on earth is allowed a second life if he can find somebody to die on his s-tead, which his wife, Alcesds, offers to do. It is a bitter tragi-comedy, characteristic in is close BuTipridean observation of human vanity. P.P.

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Translated By:
Richard Aldington
Music By:
John Hotchkls
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
Thomas Matthews
Apollo, the god of Healing:
Deryck Guyler
Death:
George Hagan
The Leader of the Chorus:
Denys Blakelock
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Richard Williams
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Charles Hodgson
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Hugh David
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Manning Wilson
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Peter Howell
Chorus of Pheraeans:
Michael Turner
A woman servant:
Sulwen Morgan
Alcestis, the Queen, wife of Admetua:
Mary Wimbush
Admetus, King of Thessaha:
Godfrey Kenton
Heracles:
Cyril Snaps
Pheres, father of Admetus:
Carleton Hobbs
A man servant:
Peter Claughton

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