BBC R4 - The Odyssey

BBC R4 - Homer's 'Odyssey'

Adapted by Simon Armitage

Music by Gary Yershon

Directed by Janet Whitaker

Broadcast in three parts August 28 and 29, 2004

Broadcast to coincide with the end of the Athens Olympics

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



The wanderings and troubles of Odysseus and his

shipmates on their way home from the sack of Troy.



Cast

Amphinomous - Chris Pavlo

Antinous - Danny Webb

Antiphus - Jon Glover

Athena - Janet McTeer

Eurybates - Philip Fox

Calypso - Adjoa Andoh

Circe - Frances Barber

Eumaeus - Ioan Meredith

Eurylochus - Ewan Bailey

Elpenus - Stephen Hogan

Eurycleia - Mary Wimbush

Eurymachus - Jonathan Keeble

Ghost of Anticleia - Joanna McCallum

Telemachus - Benedict Cumberbatch

King Alcinous - Geoffrey Whitehead

Queen Arete - Cheryl Campbell

Princess Nausicaa - Alice Hart

Penelope - Amanda Redman

Odysseus - Tim McInnerny

Hermes - Bertie Carvel

Zeus - John Wood

Polites - John Rowe

Shipmate - Jon Glover

Siren 1 - Elena Ferarri

Siren 2 - Belinda Sykes

Siren 3 - Harriet Williams

The Cyclops - Barrie Rutter



Musicians

Keith Thompson

Martin Allen

Robin Jeffrey

Chris Lacey

Elspeth Cowey

Phil Hopkins