Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES - DON QUIXOTE (320kbs-m4a/411mb/2hrs58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th & 31st December 2022

Part of 4 Extra's Bernard Cribbins Day. The actor would have turned 94 on 29th December 2022.

The 1605 classic adventure of an intrepid Spanish knight and his humble squire. Stars Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins.

The Adventures of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de Ie Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra.

Dramatised in two parts by John Arden.

Music composed by Stephen Boxer.

Director: Alfred Bradley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1980.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES - DON QUIXOTE - 1. SETTING OFF (320kbs-m4a/205mb/89mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th December 2022

Don Quixote dons his rusty armour, mounts his broken down horse and sets off with Sancho Panza, his faithful squire, to put the world to rights.

Don Quixote .... Bob Grant
Sancho Panza .... Bernard Cribbins
Cervantes .... Ronald Baddiley
Aldonza .... Meg Johnson
Moor .... Geoffrey Banks
Innkeeper .... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Father Perez .... David Sumner
Barber-Surgeon .... Peter Wheeler
Housekeeper .... Kathleen Helme
Antonia .... Kate Lee
Dorothea .... Linda Gardner
Market boy .... Alan Parnaby
Serjeant .... Alan Meadows
Don Fernando .... Simon Molloy

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES - DON QUIXOTE - 2. THE CHALLENGE (320kbs-m4a/205mb/89mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 31st December 2022

The intrepid Don Quixote is challenged by the Knight of the Mirrors.

Don Quixote .... Bob Grant
Sancho Panza .... Bernard Cribbins
Cervantes .... Ronald Baddiley
Father Perez .... David Sumner
Barber-Surgeon .... Peter Wheeler
Housekeeper .... Kathleen Helme
Duke .... Russell Dixon
Teresa Panza .... Paula Tilbrook
Altisidora .... Harriet Walter
Scholar .... Malcolm Hebden
Puppet Master .... Ken Campbell
Duchess .... Judith Arthy
Veiled Lady .... Anne Reid
Steward .... John McGregor
Antonia .... Kate Lee
Samson .... Stephen Boxer