Gulliver's Travels
Directed by Ronald MasonWriters: by Jonathan Swift, dramatised in four parts by Michael Bakewell
First broadcast: Sun 4th Oct 1981, 7:25pm on BBC Radio 3
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Gulliver's Travels:
1: A Voyage to Lilliput
Lemuel Gulliver, ship's surgeon, is shipwrecked in 1699 in the South Seas and finds himself in a land peopled by human creatures not above six inches high.
Gulliver: Frank Finlay
Marsi: Andrew Sachs
Clefrin: Anthony Daniels
Reldresal: Peter Woodthorpe
The Emperor of Lilliput: Stephen Thorne
A Considerable Person: William Fox
The Hurgo: Michael Spice
The Empress: Pauline Letts
Bolgolam: Patrick Barr
Emperor of Blefuscu: Godfrey Kenton
Flimnap: Gordon Reid
Capt Biddel: Sean Arnold
Lilliputian: Leonard Fenton
Lilliputian: John McAndrew
Jonathan Swift: Denys Hawthorne
2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Gulliver is marooned in Brobdingnag, where the people are as tall as church steeples. He battles physically and philosophically to survive and try to find a means of escape.
Gulliver: Frank Finlay
King of Brobdingnag: William Rushton
Glumdalclitch: Miriam Margolyes
the Cat,the Rat and the Monkey: Percy Edwards
the Queen: Margot Boyd
Farmer: Michael Spice
Farmer's son: John McAndrew
Farmer's wife: Pauline Letts
Nurse: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Town Crier: Leonard Fenton
Usher: Sean Arnold
Scholar: Godfrey Kenton
Dwarf: Gordon Reid
Maid: Amanda Murray
Capt Wilcocks: Patrick Barr
Jonathan Swift: Denys Hawthorne
Gulliver's Travels: 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balntbarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Lnggnagg and Japan
Alone on a deserted island, Gulliver sees a "vast opake body approaching". It is the flying island of Laputa, peopled by a ruling class of theorists which is gradually destroying the order of life in the lands below with their impractical, quite extraordinary ideas.
Jonathan Swift: Denys Hawthorne
Lemuel Gulliver: Frank Finlay
Warden of the Academy: Spike Milligan
Munodi: Nigel Stock
Chief Astronomer: Norman Rodway
Tutor: John Rye
Courtier: Anthony Daniels
Physician: Douglas Storm
Professor: Martin Friend
Dutch pirate: Sean Arnold
Emperor of Japan: Gordon Reid
King of Luggnagg: Godfrey Kenton
Governor of Glubbdubdrib: Patrick Barr
Homer: Leonard Fenton
Projector: Michael Spice
Woman: Pauline Letts
Pupil: John McAndrew
4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Gulliver's crew mutiny, seize the ship and put him ashore in a strange land where he finds the most disagreeable human creatures, Yahoos. The land he discovers is ruled by highly intelligent and articulate horses, Houyhnhnms, who make the humans their slaves.
Gulliver: Frank Finlay
The Master: Robert Stephens
The Sorrel Nag: Bryan Pringle
The Mare: Jill Balcon
Welch: John McAndrew
Old Steed: Godfrey Kenton
Captain Don Pedro: Michael Spice
Yahoos: Sean Arnold
Yahoos: Kathryn Hurlbutt
Houyhnhnms: Amanda Murray
Houyhnhnms: Patrick Barr
Houyhnhnms: Leonard Fenton
Houyhnhnms: Gordon Reid
Jonathan Swift: Denys Hawthorne