Celebrating Stoppard: Albert's Bridge

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Tom Stoppard's Albert's Bridge is part of Radio 4's Celebrating Stoppard collection. This is a 1988 production of the play first broadcast in 1967, the year Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened at the National Theatre. Albert is a philosophy graduate who turns the painting of a vast railway bridge into a comic, quixotic search for meaning. Up on the ironwork, suspended above a world that looks reassuringly like a model railway set, he has found something rare: perspective. The only question is how long it can last. Funny, strange and with serious foundations worn lightly, Albert's Bridge won the Prix Italia and an award at the International Radio Play Festival in Prague. Albert ..... Paul Copley Kate ..... Diane Bull Fraser ..... Geoffrey Matthews Chairman ..... George A Cooper Fitch ..... Peter Baldwin Dave ..... Richard Tate George ..... John Sampson Mother ..... Eva Stuart Father ..... Alan Dudley Painters ..... Norman Bird & Stephen Rashbrook Director: David Hitchinson