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The Coming of the Kings
by Ted Hughes

 
 
BBC-1: 10:25am - 11:00am Sunday, 30th December 1973

A Nativity Play with a difference. A fortune-teller tells the Innkeeper and his wife that three Kings will visit them; but how do you recognise a king when you see one?

     
Fortune Teller Brian Peck  
Innkepper Harry Towb  
His Wife Alex Marshall  
Priest Ferdy Mayne  
Businessman Al Mancini  
Police Inspector Bill Pertwee  
Minstrel Sebastian Graham-Jones  
Joseph Barry Wilsher  
Mary Susannah Williams  
First King Earl Cameron  
Second King John Moore  
Third King David Thomas  
     
Written by Ted Hughes  
Designer Paul Munting  
Director Daphne Jones  
Executive Producer Anna Home
Channel BBC-1 (colour)
Archive format non-extant
     
  ©David Hamilton/ Steve Rogers 2006
No reprinting allowed without express permission.