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Not a drum was heard...
the war memoirs of General Gland

A satire by Henry Reed

Music recorded

29th April 1959

Speech recorded

3rd May 1959.

First broadcast

BBC Third Programme on 6th May 1959, 8.00 - 9.10 p.m.

Repeats

26th May 1959, 9.20 - 10.35 p.m.

11th December 1959, 9.20 - 10.30 p.m.

29th September 1963

4th January 1969

Cast

Hilda Tablet Mary O'Farrell
Herbert Reeve Hugh Burden
Stephen Shewin Carleton Hobbs
Elsa Strauss Marjorie Westbury
General Gland Deryck Guyler
Nancy Shewin)
BBC Interviewer II)
Dorothy Primrose
Russian Interpreter I)
BBC Interviewer I)
Michael Flanders
Russian Interpreter II Donald Swann
Graham Stytch John Bryning
Roger Mayhap-Wetherby Eric Phillips
Hugh Parkinson-Warlock Nicholas Meredith
BBC Interviewer III Frank Duncan
Music composed by Donald Swann
Hilda Tablet's Rangoon March realised by Donald Swann
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk

© Chris Goddard, 30 October, 2006