The Rivals
Sunday 25 September 2005 19:30-21:30 (Radio 3)
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
1775: The fashionable world descends on Bath, to take the waters and embroil themselves in a little romantic intrigue. Miss Lydia Languish, with a face and a fortune, is being wooed by no less than three rivals for her hand.
Playlist:
Mrs Malaprop ...... Patricia Routledge
Sir Anthony Absolute ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Jack Absolute ...... Michael Maloney
Lydia Languish ...... Sarah Crowe
Faulkland ...... David Bamber
Bob Acres ...... Peter Gunn
Julia ...... Lucy Whybrow
Sir Lucius O'Trigger ...... Sean Barrett
Lucy ...... Clare Corbett
Fag ...... Nick Fletcher
David ...... Stephen Critchlow
Thomas, the coachman ...... Barrie Jaimeson
David Timson (adaptor/director)
