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by Bertolt Brecht
[starring] Edward Chapman
with Michael Bryant and Pauline Jameson
English version by Charles Laughton

(The recorded broadcast of Sept. 9)

During the Interval (7.30-7.40 app.):
Essay for Orchestra. No. 1 (Barber), played by the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Hanson : gramophone record

followed by an interlude at 8.50

Contributors

Writer:
Berthold Brecht
English version by:
Charles Laughton
Edited for radio by:
H.B. Fortuin
Edited for radio by:
W.A. Glen-Doepel
Producer:
H.B. Fortuin
Composer:
Hanns Eisler
Galileo Galilei:
Edward Chapman
Andrea Sarti, as a boy:
Jonathan Margetts
Andrea Sarti, as a man:
William Eedle
Mrs Sarti, Galileo's housekeeper:
Kathleen Helme
Ludovico Marsili, a wealthy young man:
Gabriel Woolf
Prioli, Procurator, University of Padua:
Norman Claridge
Sagredo, Galileo's friend:
George Hagan
Virginia, Galileo's daughter:
Pauline Jameson
The Philosopher:
Godfrey Kenton
The Mathematician:
Rolf Lefebvre
Court Lady:
Sylvia Coleridge
Court Lady:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Federzoni:
Duncan McIntyre
Fat Prelate:
George Merritt
Infuriated Monk:
Jon Rollason
Old Cardinal:
Edgar Norfolk
The Little Monk:
Michael Bryant
Cardinal Bellarmine:
Richard Williams
Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII:
Heron Carvic
Cardinal Inquisitor:
James Thomason
Gaffone, Rector of the University of Pisa:
Rolf Lefebvre
Ballad Singer:
Edmund Donlevy
Vanni, an iron founder:
Philip Cunningham
Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici:
John Rye
Informer of the Inquisition:
Leigh Crutchley
Titles Spoken By:
Janet Burnell
Commentator:
Michael Turner
Music Director:
Walter Goehr
Singers:
Schola Polyphonica
Director (Schola Polyphnica):
Henry Washington
Flautist:
Geoffrey Gilbert
Clarinettist:
Gervase de Peyer
Harpsichordist:
Charles Spinks
Musicians (Interval):
Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Conductor (Interval):
Howard Hanson

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