Two Tales of the Sea: Herman Melville's Moby Dick/the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Summary: Vintage CBC Recordings
Review: MOBY DICK (1949)
Produced and Directed By Andrew Allan
Composer Lucio Agostini Author Herman Melville Adaptor John Bethune
Produced and Directed By Andrew Allan
Ishmael- John Drainie, Captain Ahab- Lorne Greene, Mr. Starbuck- Budd Knapp,
A radio adaptation of Herman Melville's classic story of blind revenge, symbolism and bitterness. Consumed by insane rage Captain Ahab (Lorne Greene) is on a quest to Kill Moby-Dick, the Great White Whale that disfigured him. The intensity and anguish of this spectacular retelling of the epic tale come alive in this 1949 tour de force radio play.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1949)
Produced and Directed By Andrew Allan Composer Lucio Agostini Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adaptor Ira Dilworth
A ship having first sailed to the equator was driven by storms to the "cold country" towards the South Pole. How the Ancient Mariner cruelly and in contempt of the laws of Hospitality killed a sea bird and how he came back to his own country