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1. Setting Off

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

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

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

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.

Classic adventure first published in 1605.

Staring Bob Grant and Bernard Cribbins.

Dramatised in two parts by John Arden.

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

Music composed by Stephen Boxer.

Director: Alfred Bradley

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in September 1980.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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