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Operation Lightning Pegasus

Comic spin on what really happened inside the Wooden Horse during the siege of Troy. Stars Timothy West and Norma Ronald.

What really happened at the Fall of Troy?

Was the episode of the Wooden Horse as heroic as Homer would have it?

Or was his Iliad a cover-up, a PR job, for what was in fact a military fiasco.

Sequel to this play is "Odysseus on an Iceberg"

Stars Timothy West and Norma Ronald.

A comedy written by Alick Rowe

Agamemnon ....... Timothy West
Helen of Troy ....... Norma Ronald
Diomdes ....... Geoffrey Bateman
Paris ....... Tim Bentinck
Odysseus ....... Hugh Dickson
Menelaus ....... Sion Probert
Hector ....... Neil Stacy
Achilles ....... Henry Stamper
Andromache ....... Joy Harrison
Melops ....... Christian Rodska
Philicus ....... Ronald Herdman
Patroclus ....... Nicholas Courtney
Priam ....... Andrew Hilton
Cassandra: ....... Rosalind Adams

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1981.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Aug 202501:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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