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by W. B. Yeats
Music composed and conducted by John Buckland
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The song sung by Gladys Whitred , Josephine Crombie and Olive Gregg
Production by Frederick Bradnum
On Baile's Strand, one of Yeats's first verse plays, tells of the fight between the legendary Irish hero Cuchulain and his unknown son, and of Cuchulain's death fighting the waves. The play headed the bill on the opening night of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on December 27, 1904.

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Sung By:
Gladys Whitred
Sung By:
Josephine Crombie
Production By:
Frederick Bradnum
Narrator:
David Laing
A Fool:
Allan McClelland
A Blind Man:
Harry Hutchinson
Cuchulain:
Liam Redmond
Conchubar:
T St John Barry
A Young King:
Ron Barron
The Young Man from Aoife's country:
Brian Haines
First Woman:
Olive Gregg
Second Woman:
Josephine Crombie
Third Woman:
Gladys Whitred
Kings::
Bryan Powley
Kings::
David Laing
Kings::
Rolf Lefebvre
Kings::
George Merritt
Kings::
Peter Howell
Kings::
George Hagan
Kings::
Edgar Norfolk

Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Kathleen Joyce (contralto)
John Kentish (tenor)
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
A section of the Oxford Bach Choir
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Harrison Oxley (organ)
The St. Cecilia Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conducted by Thomas Armstrong
From the Town Hall, Oxford
Sixteenth of a series of programmes

Contributors

Contralto:
Kathleen Joyce
Tenor:
John Kentish
Bass-Baritone:
Hervey Alan
Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks
Harpsichord:
Harrison Oxley
Leader:
Thomas Carter
Conducted By:
Thomas Armstrong

Talk by Lady D rower
D.Litt.
The Mandaeans of Iraq claim to preserve among their sacred rites certain ancient ceremonies, in particular the form of baptism with which Christ was baptised by St. John. Lady Drower, who has made a close study of the Mandaeans for nearly forty years, speaks about these survivals and about her recent visit to record their ancient form of Aramaic.

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