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| 155 cast members |
| Name | Episodes | Known for |
|---|---|---|
Tony Church
Narrator / Reader
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3
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Peter Ustinov
Self
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2
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Robert Gillespie
Robert Browning / Alcibiades
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2
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Igor Stravinsky
Self
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2
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Darroll Richards
Warder / The Waiter
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2
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Peter Hall
Self
|
2
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
|
2
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George Steiner
Self
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2
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Kenneth van Barthold
Self - Presenter
|
2
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Leo McKern
Socrates
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2
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Self - Singer (Gunther)
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2
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Roddy Maude-Roxby
Phaedo / Aristophanes
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2
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Georg Solti
Self - Conductor
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2
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John Culshaw
Self - The Recording Team
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2
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Ian Holm
Self - Reader
|
1
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Michael Gough
Pausanias
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1
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Susannah York
Self - Reader
|
1
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Alan Bennett
Eryximachus
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1
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John Fortune
Phaedrus
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1
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1
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Jacques B. Brunius
Commentary spoken by (voice) (as Jacques Brunius)
|
1
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Barry Justice
Agathon
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1
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Ewan MacColl
Commentator (voice)
|
1
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Self
|
1
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W.H. Auden
Self
|
1
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Julian Jebb
Aristodemus
|
1
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H.C. Robbins Landon
Self - Host
|
1
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Max-Pol Fouchet
Self
|
1
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Peter Duval Smith
Self
|
1
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Michele Dotrice
Self - Actress
|
1
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Dudley Moore
Self
|
1
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Eleanor Bron
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
|
1
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Luchino Visconti
Self - Interviewee
|
1
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Vittorio De Sica
Self
|
1
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Michael Jayston
Self - Actor
|
1
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Barbara Murray
Self
|
1
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Silvana Mangano
Self
|
1
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John Ringham
Narrator (voice)
|
1
|
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Kenneth Haigh
Daniel Dunglas Home
|
1
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London Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
|
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Maria Callas
Self
|
1
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Bernard Miles
Self
|
1
|
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Peter Brook
Self
|
1
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Leonard Bernstein
Self
|
1
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Benny Goodman
Self
|
1
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John Hopkins
Self
|
1
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Davyd Harries
Self - Actor
|
1
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Antony Hopkins
Self
|
1
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Robert Robinson
Self - Presenter
|
1
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Richard Moore
Self - Actor
|
1
|
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Anthony Dawes
Self
|
1
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Kenneth Clark
Self (as Sir Kenneth Clark)
|
1
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Denys Hawthorne
George Bernard Shaw
|
1
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Paul Hardwick
Self - Actor
|
1
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Derek Godfrey
Self
|
1
|
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Charles Kuralt
Narrator (voice)
|
1
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John Donat
Self - Narrator (voice)
|
1
|
|
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
|
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George Balanchine
Self
|
1
|
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Gabrielle Hamilton
Self - Actress
|
1
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Léonide Massine
Self
|
1
|
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Arnold Wesker
Self
|
1
|
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Charles Collingwood
Self - Presenter
|
1
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Daniel Barenboim
Self - Pianist
|
1
|
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Richard Baker
Self - Introduction
|
1
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Mary McCarthy
Self
|
1
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The Philharmonia Orchestra
Themselves (as The New Philharmonia Orchestra)
|
1
|
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Suzanne Farrell
Self
|
1
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John Braine
Self
|
1
|
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Kenneth Tynan
Self
|
1
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Yehudi Menuhin
Self - Conductor
|
1
|
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Pope Paul VI
Self (archive footage)
|
1
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Ellen Dryden
Self
|
1
|
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Huw Wheldon
Self
|
1
|
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Toby Robertson
Self
|
1
|
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Eugene Ormandy
Self
|
1
|
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Charles Marowitz
Self
|
1
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Henry Moore
Self
|
1
|
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Frank Dunlop
Self
|
1
|
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Brian Wright
Self
|
1
|
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Frank O'Connor
Self - Narrator (voice)
|
1
|
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Adrian Boult
Self - Conductor (as Sir Adrian Boult)
|
1
|
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Frank Hauser
Self
|
1
|
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Riccardo Aragno
Self - Interviewer
|
1
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Self - Pianist
|
1
|
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Christopher Nupen
Commentary spoken by (voice)
|
1
|
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Hephzibah Menuhin
Self - Pianist
|
1
|
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Kostas Paskalis
Self
|
1
|
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Gianfranco Cecchele
Self
|
1
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Günther Weisenborn
Self
|
1
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Daniel Wayenberg
Self - Soloist
|
1
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C.P. Snow
Self
|
1
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Robert Craft
Self
|
1
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Ann Jellicoe
Self
|
1
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Henry Williamson
Self
|
1
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Peter Frankl
Self
|
1
|
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Yaltah Menuhin
Self - Pianist
|
1
|
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Jennifer Vyvyan
Self - Soprano
|
1
|
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Hugh Casson
Self (as Sir Hugh Casson)
|
1
|
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Janet Baker
Self - Contralto
|
1
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Sandra Williams
Self
|
1
|
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Norman Podhoretz
Self
|
1
|
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Suzanne Sarroca
Self (as Suzanne Sarrocca)
|
1
|
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Richard Hoggart
Self
|
1
|
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John Drummond
Self
|
1
|
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Cyril Smith
Self
|
1
|
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Bernard Keeffe
Self
|
1
|
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Rodney Friend
Self - Orchestra Leader
|
1
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Yonty Solomon
Self - Soloist
|
1
|
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Geoffrey Gorer
Self
|
1
|
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Ian Hunter
Self
|
1
|
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Harry Watton
Self (as Councillor Harry Watton)
|
1
|
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Imogen Holst
Self
|
1
|
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Noel Annan
Self (as Lord Annan)
|
1
|
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Moura Lympany
Self - Soloist
|
1
|
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Carlo Maria Giulini
Self
|
1
|
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Edward Lucie-Smith
Self
|
1
|
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Alberto Giacometti
Self
|
1
|
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Jeremy Menuhin
Self - Pianist
|
1
|
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Augustin Anievas
Self - Soloist
|
1
|
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Ernest Fleischmann
Self
|
1
|
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Boris Brott
Self
|
1
|
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Victor Gollancz
Self (as Sir Victor Gollancz)
|
1
|
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Brendan Kennelly
Self - Narrator (voice)
|
1
|
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Paris Opéra Ballet School Students
Themselves (as The Paris Opera School)
|
1
|
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John Berger
Self - Presenter
|
1
|
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Birgit Nilsson
Self - Singer (Brünnhilde)
|
1
|
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John Franklyn-Robbins
The Artist (Arthur King)
|
1
|
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Georges Delerue
Self
|
1
|
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Rene Cutforth
Self - Reporter
|
1
|
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Pablo Picasso
Self - Subject
|
1
|
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Wolfgang Windgassen
Self - Singer (Siegfried)
|
1
|
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Ken Russell
Self
|
1
|
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Sheila Allen
Ruth
|
1
|
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Ronald Adam
Crito
|
1
|
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Gottlob Frick
Self - Singer (Hagen)
|
1
|
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Peter Bowles
Melville
|
1
|
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Peter Eyre
Simmias
|
1
|
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Henry Livings
Cebes
|
1
|
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Alexandra Malcolm
Jean
|
1
|
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Claire Watson
Self - Singer (Gutrune)
|
1
|
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Ingrid Hafner
Ursula
|
1
|
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David de Keyser
Doctor
|
1
|
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Freda Dowie
Xanthippe
|
1
|
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Alexander Cranfield Abbot
Journalist
|
1
|
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Gordon Parry
Self - The Recording Team
|
1
|
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George Tute
Jim
|
1
|
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James Brown
Self - The Recording Team
|
1
|
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Catherine Rodgers
Rebecca
|
1
|
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Christopher Raeburn
Self - The Recording Team
|
1
|
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Richard Howard
Photographer
|
1
|
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Jack Law
Self - The Recording Team
|
1
|
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Erik Smith
Self - The Recording Team
|
1
|
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Humphrey Burton
Self - Narrator (voice)
|
1
|
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Micheline Gautron
Self - Delerue's wife (uncredited)
|
1
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