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Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Flower of Blood
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'In the desert of Western Australia where the British slew many Aborigines, there grows a scarlet flower. The Spanish monks who also settled there in the 1850s cherished both the flower and the Aborigines.'

Source:

Radio Times, 31 January 1991, p.83.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 11 February 1991, at 7:45pm.

    Directors: Richard Connolly and Shaun MacLoughlin.

    Pianist: John Bishop.

    Cast members: Michael Williams (Fr Saleado), Christian Rodska (Fr Serra), William Eedle (Bilagoro), Kate Binchy (Sister Ursula), Peter Caffrey (Bishop Brady), Elizabeth Mansfield (Teresa), Brian Miller (Weld), Bruce Stewart (Burgess), and John Bull (Landor).

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