Benbow Was His Name (BBC TV 1964) Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor, Donald Wolfit, Gordon Jackson

Benbow Was His Name (BBC TV 1964)
The story of a Naval action in the West Indies in 1702, told through the literature of the sea and drawn from fact and fiction by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.
Starring Donald Wolfit as Admiral Benbow,
with Gordon Jackson as Campbell, John Wood as Captain Kirkby and Robin Hall & Jimmie Macgregor as The Shantymen.
The Company: James Bree, Mark Eden, Gordon Gostelow, Peter Jeffrey, Donald Pickering, Patrick Newell and Denis Quilley as Rutland
with Rose Hill, Betty Hardy, Conrad Monk, Peter Stenson, Andre Boulay, Madge Brindley.
The George Mitchell Singers.
Concertina played by Alf Edwards.
(First transmission on May 7, 1964)
(James Bree appears by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Writer:
Caryl Brahms
Writer/Director/Producer:
Ned Sherrin
Music arranged by:
Robin Hall
Music arranged by:
Jimmie Macgregor
Music arranged by:
Peter Greenwell
Originally broadcast 7th May 1964 on BBC1 Television. A newly found original off-air soundtrack retrieved from a 7″ domestic reel-to-reel audio tape recording of the TV broadcast.

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Absolute magic - thank you - if only we had the visual too. On a par with Charles Chilton’s docudrama about The Victory also featuring the George Mitchell Singers.