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by William Shakespeare
with Music composed by John Buckland
Conducted by Peter Gellhorn
Other parts: members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
(Richard Leech is in 'The Right Honourable Gentleman' at Her Majesty's Theatre. London)
(To be repeated on October 11)
See page 58

During the interval: 9.10-9.20* A record of the Prelude and Scherzo, Op. 11 by Shostakovich. Played by the London Soloists' Ensemble led by Nicholas Roth

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Composed By:
John Buckland
Conducted By:
Peter Gellhorn
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Produced By:
Richard Leech
Unknown:
Nicholas Roth
Pandarus:
Cyril Cusack
Thersites:
Kenneth Griffith
Ulysses:
Maurice Denham
Cressida:
Joanna Dunham
Troilus:
David Spenser
Prologue:
Michael Kilgarriff
Priam, King of Troy:
Ralph Truman
His sons:
Hector: Julian Glover
His sons:
Troilus: David Spenser
His sons:
Paris: Andrew Sachs
His sons:
Deiphobus: Peter Bartlett
His sons:
Helenus: Gordon Gardner
Margarelon, bastard son of Priam:
Michael Kilgarriff
Aeneas, a Trojan commander:
Stephen Thorne
Calchas, a priest:
Eric Anderson
Cressida, his daughter:
Joanna Dunham
Pandarus, Cressida's uncle:
Cyril Cusack
Cassandra, Priam's daughter:
Margaret Wolfit
Andromache, Hector's wife:
Nicolette Bernard
Alexander, Cressida's servant:
Philip Guard
Greeks Agamemnon, the Grecian general:
Robert Eddison
Menelaus:
Peter O'Shaugnessy
Grecian Commanders:
Ulysses: Maurice Denham
Grecian Commanders:
Ajax: Peter Pratt
Grecian Commanders:
Achilles: Richard Leech
Grecian Commanders:
Nestor: Rolf Lefebvre
Grecian Commanders:
Patroclus: Fraser Kerr
Grecian Commanders:
Diomedes: Peter Marinker
Thersites:
Kenneth Griffith
Helen, Menelaus' wife:
Isabel Rennie

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