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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: DRAMA, THE GOLDEN AGE

1977-0127

Sound

The Inspector General

1948-08-25

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

director/producer, Esse W. Ljungh; music, Howard Cable; announcer, Elwood Glover; narrator, Lorne Greene; sound effects, Frank Tudor; technical operation, Stan Westlake

James Doohan, Mavor Moore, Roxana Bond, Peggi Loder, [Alec McKee], Robert Christie, Alan King, John Drainie, Douglas Master, Ben Lennick, Larry McCance, Herbert Gott, William Needles, Alfie Scopp

Radio program featuring the performance of a drama by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, adapted for radio by Mavor Moore. Word reaches a small town that an Inspector has been sent from St. Petersburg to investigate the town which is controlled by a group of comically corrupt officials. They mistakenly identify a reprobate 4th grade civil servant as the Inspector, who, they know, is travelling incongnito. The civil servant takes advantage of this deception by fleecing the officials of money, making love to the mayor's wife and daughter. The truth is revealed when the Postmaster opens a letter from the civil servant to his father. The genuine Inspector arrives but it is too late to deceive him; he has been met by a delegation of townspeople who denounce the officials as corrupt. The play ends with speculation on the part of the Mayor on just how cold Siberia really is. <60mn>

English

DRAMA

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GAD 0FD547

~To be Determined / À déterminer

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