In 1966 the BBC recorded and broadcast the complete extant operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In the main, each role was performed by two artists - a singer and an actor.
At 12 noon on Sunday 26th June 1966, BBC Network Three broadcast 'Utopia Limited'.
The cast:
King Paramount, the First (King of Utopia) ... Peter Pratt
Scaphio (a Judge of the Utopian Supreme Court) ... sung by Derek Hammond-Stroud and spoken by Rolf Lefebvre
Phantis (a Judge of the Utopian Supreme Court) ... sung by Eric Shilling and spoken by Aubrey Woods
Tarara (The Public Exploder) ... sung by John Frost and spoken by Wilfrid Carter
Calynx (The Utopian Vice-Chamberlain) ... spoken by Frederick Treves
Lord Dramaleigh (a British Lord Chamberlain) ... sung by David Price and spoken by Hamlyn Benson
Captain Fitzbattleaxe (First Life Guards) ... sung by Kenneth Bowen and spoken by Peter Howell
Captain Sir Edward Corcoran K.C.B. (of the Royal Navy) ... Donald Francke
Mr. Goldbury (a Company Promoter, afterwards Comptroller of the Utopian Household) ... sung by Leslie Fyson and spoken by Frederick Treves
Sir Bailey Barre, QC, MP ... Edgar Fleet
Mr Blushington, of the County Council ... John Noble
The Princess Zara (eldest daughter of King Paramount) ... sung by Patricia Reakes and spoken by Sheila Manahan
The Princess Nekaya ... sung by Joanne Brown and spoken by Wendy Lovelock
The Princess Kalyba ... Jane Wenham
The Lady Sophy (their English Gouvernante) ... sung by Jean Allister and spoken by Margaret Gordon
Satana ... spoken by Elizabeth Proud
Melene ... spoken by Pamela Binns
Phylla ... Doreen Murray
The John McCarthy Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra (leader, Arthur Leavins), conducted by Stanford Robinson
Produced by Michael Moores
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