Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
It鈥檚 Christmas, and Squire Headlong invites his - very chatty - friends of learning to a party. Stars Michael Horden.
Winter, 1815: Harry Headlong, like all Welsh squires, is fond of shooting, hunting and drinking. But he becomes seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of philosophers and dilettanti.
Sir Michael Hordern narrates Thomas Love Peacock's novella.
Escot. the deteriorationist ...... Daniel Massey
Foster, the perfectibilian ...... Ronald Lacey
Jenkison, the statu-quo-ite ...... John Grillo
Cranium, the craniologist ...... John Horsley
Headlong ...... William Simons
Cephalis ...... Polly James
Gaster ...... Alan Dudley
Milestone ...... Andrew Branch
Gall ...... Simon Cuff
Norman ...... BirdPanscope
Tenorina ...... Caroline Gruber
MacLaurel ...... Michael Deacon
O'Prism ...... John Tate
Chromatic ...... John Baddeley
Graziosa ...... Joan Walker
Dramatised by James Saunders.
Producer: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in July 1988
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