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by Bertolt Brecht with MICHAEL BRYANT and PAULINE JAMESON English version by Charles Laughton
Edited for radio by H. B. Fortuin and W. A. Glen-Doepel
Music by Hanns Eisler
I" Padua:
In Florence: and In Rome:
In Florence again:
Titles spoken by Janet Burnell Commentator, Michael Turner
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Music directed by Walter Goehr sung by a section of the Brompton Oratory Choir and played by Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) and Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Production by H. B. Fortuin
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.15-9.25 app.): Essay for Orchestra, No. 1 (Barber), played by the Eastman-Rochester
Bymphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Hanson : gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Bertolt Brecht
Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Unknown:
Pauline Jameson
Unknown:
Charles Laughton
Unknown:
H. B. Fortuin
Unknown:
W. A. Glen-Doepel
Music By:
Hanns Eisler
Spoken By:
Janet Burnell
Commentator:
Michael Turner
Directed By:
Walter Goehr
Flute:
Geoffrey Gilbert
Clarinet:
Gervase de Peyer
Clarinet:
Charles Spinks
Production By:
H. B. Fortuin
Conducted By:
Howard Hanson
Galileo Galilei:
Edward Chapman
Andrea Sarti. as a boy:
Jonathan Margetts
Andrea Sarti. as a boy as a man:
William Eedle
Mrs Sarti, Galileo's housekeeper:
Kathleen Helme
Ludovico Marsill, a wealthy young man:
Gabriel Woolf
Mr Prioli, Procurator of the Univer sity 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 Ladies:
Sylvia Coleridge
Court Ladies:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Federzoni:
Duncan McLntyre
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
Mr Gaffone, Rector of the University of Pisa:
Rolf Lefebvre
A Ballad Singer:
Edmund Donlevy
Vanni, an iron founder:
Philip Cunningham
Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici:
John Rye
An Informer of the Inquisition:
Leigh Crutchley

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