Operation Lightning Pegasus
by Alick Rowe
broadcast 1981-11-07 (Saturday Night Theatre), rpt 1982-08-07
Humorous version of the siege of Troy: The wooden horse, the thick-as-a-plank muscular heroes, the seductress Helen.
128/44; 80 MB; sound quality excellent
The Greeks: Timothy West as Agammemnon, Shaun Probert as Menelaus, Geoffrey Bateman as Diomedes, Henry Stamper as Achilles, Nicholas Courtney as Petroclus, Hugh Dickson as Odysseus, Ronald Herdman as Philicus.
The Trojans: Andrew Hilton as Priam, Neil Stacey as Hector, Joy Harrison as Andromache, Tim Bentinck as Paris, Norma Ronald as Helen, Rosalind Adams as Cassandra, Christian Rodska as Melops.
Harpist: Valerie Aldridge-Smith.
Directed in Bristol by Shaun MacLoughlin.
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