BBC R2 - The Cruel Sea

BBC R2 - Nicholas Monsarrat's 'The Cruel Sea'

Adapted by Joe Dunlop

Produced by Jonathan Ruffle

Broadcast January 7 - February 11, 1998

Consolidated into two files.

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



Nicholas Monsarrat's salute to the more than 3,600

allied merchant ships sunk, and more than 60,000

allied seamen lost, between 1939 and 1945 in the

Battle of the North Atlantic.



Cast

Donald Sinden [Narrator]

Michael Maloney

David Timson

John Webb

Philip Madoc

Don Mccorkindale

Vincent Brimble

Henry Naylor

Tom Hillier

Tony Selby

Paul Rhys

Helen Baxendale

Dominic Rickards

Bernard Gallagher

Rupert Holliday-Evans