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BBC Radio 3Sun 7 Jun 2009 20:00 BBC Radio 3
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Shakespeare Dramas
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.
Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes
A play by Richard Nelson, blending history and conjecture.
No reigning British monarch had ever been to the United States before George VI's visit in 1939, just on the cusp of a new world war. History was in the making when the King and Queen arrived at President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, with a promise of politics, a picnic and hot dogs. But the private life of the President provided a whole new dimension to an epochal moment, at least in the memory of his lover.
Older Daisy, a woman in her 90s ...... Barbara Jefford
Daisy, her younger self ...... Emma Fielding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...... Tim Pigott-Smith
Missy, his secretary ...... Nancy Crane
Eleanor, his wife ...... Julia Swift
Mother, his mother ...... Sylvia Syms
Tommy Qualters, his bodyguard ...... John Chancer
Bertie ...... Corin Redgrave
Elizabeth ...... Kika Markham
Cameron ...... Jamie Newall
Directed by Ned Chaillet.
Sun 7 Jun 2009 20:00 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Sun 7 Jun 2009 20:00 BBC Radio 3
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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