form y separately published work icon The Beauty of the World single work   radio play  
Issue Details: First known date: 1973... 1973 The Beauty of the World
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A radio play about Helen of Troy.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 FM, 12 February 1973, from 8:30pm.

    Producer: Guy Vaesen.

    Music: David Cain.

    Harpist: Frances Kelly.

    Cast members included William Fox (Menelaus); David Gooderson (Telemachus); Coral Browne (Helen), Rosalind Shanks (Calypso); George Baker (Odysseus); Margaret Rawlings (Hecuba); Nigel Anthony (Diomedes); Terry Scully (Antielos); Ronald Herdman (Epeius); John Rowe (Deiphobus); and Hannah Francis, Heather Kay, and Kathy Martin (Sirens).

    (Production details via Radio Times, 8 February 1973, p.29.)

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Subjects:
  • The Iliad Homer , 800 BCE single work poetry
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