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405 cast members |
Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Robin Ray
Self - Presenter
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37
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Melvyn Bragg
Self - Presenter
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12
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Richard Baker
Self - Presenter / Self - Interviewer
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6
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André Previn
Self / Self - Conductor / Self - Presenter
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6
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Humphrey Burton
Self - Presenter
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4
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Robert Tear
Self
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4
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Benjamin Luxon
Self / Elijah
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3
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Julian Bream
Self
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3
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Kenneth Clark
Self / Self - Interviewee / Self - Narrator
|
3
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Lyndon Brook
Self - Narrator
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3
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Michel Beroff
Self - Piano
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3
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Spike Milligan
Self / Self - Presenter
|
2
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Isaac Stern
Self / Self - Presenter
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2
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James Loughran
Self / Self - Presenter
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2
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William Walton
Self
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2
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Owain Arwel Hughes
Self - Presenter
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2
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Raymond Leppard
Self / Self - Presenter
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2
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Stephen Sondheim
Self
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2
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Robin Leggate
Malcolm / Self - Tenor
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2
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Michael Aldridge
Holzapfel / Self - Narrator
|
2
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James Herriot
Self
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2
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Karen Kain
Self / Swanilda
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2
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Hans Werner Henze
Self
|
2
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Rafael Kubelík
Self
|
2
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April Cantelo
Berthe - singing / Self - Soprano
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2
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Kyung-Wha Chung
Self / Self - Violin
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2
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Royal Military School Of Music Band
Themselves
|
2
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John Williams
Self
|
2
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Hermann Prey
Baritone / Figaro
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2
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Billie Whitelaw
Emma Hardy
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2
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Millicent Martin
Self - Singer
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2
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Julia McKenzie
Self - Singer
|
2
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David Kernan
Self - Singer
|
2
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London Sinfonietta
Themselves
|
2
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Patricia Parker
Contralto / Self - mezzo-soprano
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2
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Alfred Burke
The words of Schoenberg spoken by
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2
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Leonard Bernstein
Self / Self - Conductor
|
2
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Alexander Goehr
Self - Presenter
|
2
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Gerald English
Self / Self - Speaker
|
2
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Charles Rosen
Self
|
2
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
|
2
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John Ringham
Hüttenbrenner / Self - in discussion
|
2
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Michael Smee
Narrator / Self - Narrator
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2
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Oscar Peterson
Self
|
1
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Ian Hogg
Arnold Rubek / Brand / Halvard Solness / Henrik Ibsen / John Gabriel Borkman
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1
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Tennessee Williams
Self
|
1
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Wiener Philharmoniker
Themselves
|
1
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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Themselves
|
1
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Nadine Gordimer
Self
|
1
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Len Deighton
Self
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1
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Norman Bailey
Macbeth
|
1
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Martin Esslin
Self
|
1
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Sean O'Faoláin
Self
|
1
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Sidney Nolan
Self - Subject
|
1
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Plácido Domingo
Canio / Turiddu
|
1
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Geraint Evans
Bottom
|
1
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Annette Crosbie
Aline Solness / Gunhild Borkman / Irene / Suzannah Ibsen
|
1
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Patricia Johnson
Lady Macbeth
|
1
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Pauline Tinsley
Santuzza
|
1
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Janet Maw
Hilde Wangel / Rosa Fitinghoff
|
1
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
Banquo
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1
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Heather Begg
Mamma Lucia
|
1
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Ingrid Hafner
Gina Ekdal / Woman in green
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1
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Neil Shicoff
Macduff
|
1
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Gianpiero Mastromei
Alfio
|
1
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Gillian Knight
Lola
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1
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Paul Shelley
Einar / Gregers Werle
|
1
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Peter Glossop
Tonio
|
1
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Maureen O'Brien
Ella Rentheim / Nora Helmer
|
1
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Thomas Lawlor
Doctor
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1
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Oliver Maguire
Hjalmar Ekdal / Torvald Helmer
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1
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Bruce Ogston
Macbeth's servant
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1
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Francis Egerton
Beppe
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1
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Sophie Ward
Hedvig Ekdal
|
1
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Ronald Russell
Dignitary
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1
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Jonathan Newth
Nils Vogt
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1
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Paul Beech
Railway attendant
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1
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Edmond Bennett
Hotel manager
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1
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Eileen Helsby
Amalie Skram
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1
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Norman Rutherford
Thorvald Niss
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1
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Margot Van der Burgh
Fru Anckarsvard
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1
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Michelle Newell
Froken Hullberg
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1
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Caroline Burt
Fru Under
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1
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Guy Hassan
Young man
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1
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Britt Ekland
Self
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1
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Pamela Stephenson
Josephine
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1
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Joss Ackland
Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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1
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Geoffrey Palmer
William in 'Something for the Time Being'
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1
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Maureen Stapleton
Amanda Wingfield
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1
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Annie Ross
Self
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1
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Jennifer Hilary
Madge in 'Something for the Time Being'
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1
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James Aubrey
Tom Wingfield in 'The Glass Menagerie'
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1
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Rod Stewart
Self
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1
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Elizabeth Adare
Ella in 'Something for the Time Being'
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1
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Ian La Frenais
Self
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1
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Dick Clement
Self
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1
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Rosemary McHale
Blanche Du Bois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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1
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Pinchas Zukerman
Self
|
1
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James Galway
Self
|
1
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Malcolm Arnold
Self - Guest Conductor
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1
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Michael Long
Sosthene
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1
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Geoffrey Morris
Headmaster in 'The Late Bourgeois World'
|
1
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Martha Graham
Self
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1
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Milos Kirek
Self
|
1
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Daniel Barenboim
Self
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1
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Estelle Kohler
Liz in 'The Late Bourgeois World'
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1
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Roland Petit
Dr. Coppelius
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1
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Judy Lynne
Berthe
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1
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BBC Concert Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
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Teresa Berganza
Rosina
|
1
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Simon Rattle
Self - Guest Conductor
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1
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Donald Swann
Self - Guest Conductor
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1
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Sarah Craze
Laura Wingfield in 'The Glass Menagerie'
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1
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Malcolm Williamson
Self
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1
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Lucia Popp
Soprano
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1
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David Atherton
Self
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1
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1
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Lawrence Leonard
Self - Guest Conductor
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1
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Marcia Haydée
Tatiana
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1
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Themselves
|
1
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Edward Kemp
Bruce in 'The Late Bourgeois World'
|
1
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Egon Madsen
Lenski
|
1
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Erich Leinsdorf
Self
|
1
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Stefania Malagù
Berta
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1
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Elizabeth Poston
Self - Guest Conductor
|
1
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Paul Crossley
Self
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1
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Alton Kumalo
Daniel in 'Something for the Time Being'
|
1
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Maurizio Pollini
Self - Piano Soloist
|
1
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
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Alexander Gibson
Self
|
1
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Maina Gielgud
Muse
|
1
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Paolo Montarsolo
Don Basilio
|
1
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Stephen Kovacevitch
Self - Piano Soloist
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1
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Bud Freeman
Self
|
1
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Ida Haendel
Self
|
1
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Joyce Cuoco
Olga
|
1
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John Lill
Self
|
1
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Syd Lawrence
Themselves
|
1
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Alex Welsh
Themselves
|
1
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Gino Zancanaro
Governor
|
1
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Claudio Arrau
Self
|
1
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Enzo Dara
Dr. Bartolo
|
1
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Günther Reich
Self - Narrator
|
1
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John van Kesteren
Bass
|
1
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Rae Cocking
Madam Sciocca
|
1
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Thomas Hemsley
Self
|
1
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Charles Elsesser
Self
|
1
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Neil Easton
Old fisherman
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1
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Bruce Marks
Othello
|
1
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Marisa Robles
Self
|
1
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Paolo Bortoluzzi
Apollo
|
1
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James Christiansen
Marcel
|
1
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Jon Weaving
Sosthene - singing
|
1
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Luigi Alva
Count Almaviva
|
1
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Toni Lander
Desdemona
|
1
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Heinz Clauss
Onegin
|
1
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Jeremy Menuhin
Self
|
1
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John Drummond
Self - Interviewer
|
1
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Roy Waterson
1st Oarsman
|
1
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Jean-Bernard Pommier
Self
|
1
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Myung-Whun Chung
Self
|
1
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John Constable
Self - Piano Accompanist
|
1
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Bernard Heinze
Self - Conductor
|
1
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Simon Gluckman
Braithwaite in 'The Late Bourgeois World'
|
1
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Kenneth Corden
Self - Narrator
|
1
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Marilyn Richardson
Josephine - singing
|
1
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Eva Evdokimova
Muse
|
1
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Louis Kentner
Self
|
1
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Henning Kronstam
Iago
|
1
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Rudy Bryans
Franz
|
1
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Hephzibah Menuhin
Self
|
1
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Ruth Rosen
Narrator of 'Something for the Time Being'
|
1
|
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Soft Machine
Themselves
|
1
|
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Vivi Flindt
Emilia
|
1
|
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National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Themselves
|
1
|
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Gary Bertini
Self
|
1
|
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Deep Roy
Self
|
1
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Tom Baker
Self
|
1
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Ronald Pickup
Actor
|
1
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Michael Hordern
Claude Monet
|
1
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Martin Jarvis
Self - Narrator
|
1
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William Hootkins
Bray (Discipline)
|
1
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Bernard Hepton
The words of Webern spoken by
|
1
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Tony Haygarth
Winkelstein (Discipline)
|
1
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Ray McAnally
Maguire in 'The Fur Coat'
|
1
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Mary Hignett
Superioress in 'Teresa'
|
1
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Zubin Mehta
Self
|
1
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Barbara Mullen
Sister Patrick in 'Teresa'
|
1
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Mary Wimbush
Additional narration
|
1
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Princess Margaret
Self
|
1
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Billy J. Mitchell
Soldier (Discipline)
|
1
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Veronica Quilligan
Teresa in 'Teresa'
|
1
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Bill Bailey
Green (Discipline)
|
1
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Colette O'Neil
Molly in 'The Fur Coat'
|
1
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William Lucas
Pelling (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
|
1
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Graham Weston
Steeple (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
|
1
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Dick Francis
Self
|
1
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Gwyneth Jones
Self
|
1
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Blain Fairman
Lieut. Simms (Discipline)
|
1
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London Symphony Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
|
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Julian Littman
Orpheus
|
1
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Tito Gobbi
Self
|
1
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Jane Darling
Dancer
|
1
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Dave Brubeck
Self - Piano
|
1
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John Dair
Commuter
|
1
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Paul Antrim
Maxer in 'Two of a Kind'
|
1
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Sheila Manahan
Lily in 'Two of a Kind'
|
1
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Michael Frayn
Self - Presenter
|
1
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Robert Holmes
Self - Script Editor
|
1
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John Fowles
Self
|
1
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Terrance Dicks
Self - Script Writer
|
1
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Arthur Mitchell
Self - and the Dance Theatre of Harlem
|
1
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Victor Winding
Wool (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
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1
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Philip Hinchcliffe
Self - Producer
|
1
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John Dallimore
Keats (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
|
1
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Dave Brubeck Quartet
Themselves
|
1
|
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Alfred Brendel
Self
|
1
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Murray Perahia
Self
|
1
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Roy Eldridge
Self
|
1
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Norwich Duff
Harvey (Discipline)
|
1
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Ray Jewers
Ashton (Discipline)
|
1
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Nelli Pshyonnaya
Prince Igor's wife
|
1
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Self - Cello
|
1
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Boris Khmelnitskiy
Prince Igor
|
1
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Jules Walter
Commuter
|
1
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Martha Argerich
Self
|
1
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Hugo De Vernier
Waiter in 'Teresa'
|
1
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Clark Terry
Self - and the Big Band
|
1
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Paul Hudson
Self - bass
|
1
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Paul Desmond
Self - Alto Sax
|
1
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Bud Strait
Captain (Discipline)
|
1
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Gillian Widdicombe
Self
|
1
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Jay Neill
Sergeant (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
|
1
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Joe Morello
Self - Drums
|
1
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Aleksandr Slastin
Prince Galitsky
|
1
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Dudley Simpson
Self - Composer
|
1
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Darius Brubeck
Self - Electric Piano
|
1
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Chris Brubeck
Self - Bass Guitar / Trombone
|
1
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The Ambrosian Singers
Themselves
|
1
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Janet Baker
Self - Soloist
|
1
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Leo Abse
Self
|
1
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Boris Tokarev
Prince Igor's son
|
1
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David Scott
Self - student
|
1
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Maurice Lane
Dancer
|
1
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1
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Bimbulat Vatayev
Khan Konchak
|
1
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Edwin Mullins
Self - Narrator
|
1
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Tamás Vásáry
Self - Piano Soloist
|
1
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Roger Murray-Leach
Self
|
1
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Eugene Wright
Self - Bass
|
1
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Adrian Boult
Self
|
1
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Pierre Boulez
Self - Conductor
|
1
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Ian Caddy
Self - Baritone
|
1
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Jimmy Raney
Self - and his Quartet
|
1
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
|
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Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Self
|
1
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Lorin Maazel
Self
|
1
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Frank Augustyn
Self
|
1
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Jessica Mitford
Self
|
1
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Self
|
1
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|
Melanie Parr
Dancer
|
1
|
|
Bolshoi Ballet
Themselves
|
1
|
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Gail Galih
Commuter
|
1
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John Shirley-Quirk
Self - Soloist
|
1
|
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Charles Groves
Self
|
1
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Colin Davis
Self
|
1
|
|
Joanna Carlin
Eurydice
|
1
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Richard Kates
Sloan (It Must Have Been Two Other Fellows)
|
1
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Danny Abse
Self
|
1
|
|
Trinity Boys Choir
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Yevgeni Nesterenko
Khan Konchak sung by
|
1
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Elsa Smith
Commuter
|
1
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Jean-Rodolphe Kars
Self - Piano
|
1
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John Mitchinson
Self - tenor
|
1
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Philip Hope-Wallace
Self
|
1
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Norma Wilson
Self - interviewee
|
1
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Donna Savage
Self - pupil
|
1
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John Miller
Self - Educational Psychologist
|
1
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Tina Sullivan
Self - pupil
|
1
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Francis Watson
Self
|
1
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Con Chambers
Commuter
|
1
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Andrew Porter
Self
|
1
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Eric Sherwood Jones
Self - Consultant Physician
|
1
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Homero Fransesch
Self
|
1
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Paco Peña
Self - Presenter
|
1
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John Wain
Self
|
1
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|
Margaret Rogerson
Self - interviewee
|
1
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Rosemary Matthews
Self - interviewee
|
1
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Helen Dickinson
Self - student
|
1
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Le Ballet National de Marseille
Themselves - Le Loup
|
1
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Ronald Matthews
Self - Teacher
|
1
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Bryan Payne
Dancer
|
1
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|
Tamara Milashkina
Prince Igor's wife sung by
|
1
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Elizabeth Matthews
Self - interviewee
|
1
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Anny Mory
Self - soprano
|
1
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Themselves
|
1
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Kenneth Bailey
Self - Educationalist (Retired)
|
1
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Alan Brownjohn
Self
|
1
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Yvonne Minton
Self - Mezzo-soprano
|
1
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The English Bach Festival Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
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Tony Coe
Self
|
1
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Olga Hegedus
Self - Cello
|
1
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David Lloyd-Jones
Self
|
1
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Gordon Beck
Self
|
1
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Huddersfield Choral Society
Themselves
|
1
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The Moiseyev Dancers
Themselves
|
1
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Anthony Payne
Self
|
1
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The New York City Ballet
Themselves - Symphony in C
|
1
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Adam Makowicz
Self
|
1
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Caron Scott
Self - pupil
|
1
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Caspar Hewett
Self - interviewee
|
1
|
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Denys Ganio
Self
|
1
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John Elwes
Self - Tenor
|
1
|
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Buddy Tate
Self
|
1
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Willi Reich
Self
|
1
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BBC Philharmonic
Themselves
|
1
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Elizabeth Fiberry
Self - student
|
1
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Dorothy Dorow
Self - Soprano
|
1
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Suzanne Hywel
Self - Dancer
|
1
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Mary Thomas
Self - Soprano
|
1
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Danny Brubeck
Self - Drums
|
1
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Virgilius Noreika
Prince Igor's son sung by
|
1
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Christine Carlson
Dancer
|
1
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Ann Miller
Self - student
|
1
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Jill Gomez
Self - Soprano
|
1
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The Cleveland Orchestra
Themselves
|
1
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Nicholas Bishop
Self - pupil
|
1
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Rupert Horder
Actor
|
1
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Dmitry Alexeev
Self - Piano
|
1
|
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Anthony Thwaite
Self
|
1
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Dean Boreham
Self - pupil
|
1
|
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Peter Porter
Self
|
1
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|
Orchestre national de France
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Keith Hewett
Self - Educationalist
|
1
|
|
Sylvester McCoy
Puck
|
1
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|
Adam Godley
Franz Schubert as a boy
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1
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Caroline Blakiston
Narrator
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Edward Petherbridge
Bauernfeld
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Peter Barkworth
Josef von Spaun
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Cyril Luckham
Thomas Hardy
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David Wood
Franz Schubert
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Petronella Barker
Mrs. Holder
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Frank Gatliff
Schindler
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Ian Lindsay
Young Hardy
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Alan Price
Self
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Basil Henson
Sonnleithner
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Ann Tirard
Mrs. Hardy
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John Gill
Eckel
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David Hockney
Self
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Mike Mungarvan
Actor
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Elizabeth Proud
Florence Hardy
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Ralph Steadman
Self
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John Gabriel
Stadler
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Barbara Bermel
Actress
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Robert Hughes
Self - Presenter
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Derrick Gilbert
Actor
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Roderick Kennedy
Theseus
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Patricia Price
Hippolyta
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Jim Dine
Self
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Cecil Lewis
Self
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Peter France
Self - Interviewer
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Peter Blake
Self
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Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest
Themselves
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Irene Gawne
Actress
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John Read
Self - Narrator
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Mavis Taylor Blake
Actress
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Witold Lutoslawski
Self
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Graham Ovenden
Self
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Suzanne Murphy
Helena
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Julian Moyle
Starveling
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Ralph Hamer
Snug
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Jann Haworth
Self
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David Gwynne
Quince
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Thomas Allen
Actor
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John Treleaven
Flute
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Eileen Brady
Actress
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Peter Dvorský
Self - Tenor
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Wiener Staatsopernballett
Themselves
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Arthur Davies
Lysander
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Rita Daniels
Actress
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Giles Christian Harding
Actor
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Claire Oerton
Dolly Gale
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John Franklyn-Robbins
Self - in discussion
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John Normington
Self - in discussion
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Ian Anderson
Self
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Martin Barre
Self
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Barriemore Barlow
Self
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John Glascock
Self
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John Evan
Self
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Colin Douglas
Narrator
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Stuart Fell
Self (uncredited)
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John Bloomfield
Self (uncredited)
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Michael Spice
Self (uncredited)
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Graham Williams
Self (uncredited)
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Dick Mills
Self (uncredited)
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David Maloney
Self (uncredited)
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Jan Vincent-Rudzki
Self - student (uncredited)
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Ian Budhu
Self - pupil (uncredited)
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Roger Daley
Self - pupil (uncredited)
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Stephen Payne
Self - student (uncredited)
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Heather Stewart
Self (uncredited)
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Gerry Scott
Self (uncredited)
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Elizabeth Vaughan
Soprano (uncredited)
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Ryland Davies
Tenor (uncredited)
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