BBC R4 - Patricia Cleveland Peck's 'The Cello And The Nightingale'
Cello played by Julian Lloyd Webber
Directed by Cherry Cookson
Broadcast Radio 4 October 18, 1992

Beatrice Harrison was the leading British cellist from the
1920s to the 1940s. She premiered works for Elgar and Delius.
Her performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto set the benchmark.


Beatrice Harrison

Harrison rehearsed in her garden. Nightingales sometimes sang
along with her. In 1924 the BBC decided to broadcast this odd
combination. These broadcasts became an annual event. This
play is about the first of these broadcasts. It includes
recordings that she made with the nightingales.

Cast
Beatrice Harrison - Diana Quick
Mrs Harrison - Maxine Audley
Colonel Harrison - Garrard Green
Captain West - Geoffrey Whitehead
Elgar - Jonathon Adams
Mr Eckersley - Jonathon Adams
Rex Palmer - Peter Penry Jones
Listener-in - Eric Allan
Listener-in's nephew - Jill Lidstone
Margaret Harrison - Kate Binchey
May - Joanna Week
Madame Melba - Joanna Week
Cyril Scott - Keith Drinkel
Bates - John Webb
Mr Reith - Gordon Reid
Monica - Theresa Stretfield

Patricia Peck reworked this radio play into
a stage play that was first performed in 2004

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