BBC R4 - Peter Goodchild\'s \'The Great Monkey Trial\' [19 torrent

BBC R4 - Peter Goodchild's 'The Great Monkey Trial'
Directed by John Theocaris
Produced by Susan Lowanberg & Martin Jenkins
Broadcast March 8, 1992
Recently recoded from tape at 128/44.1
NB This is the original two hour play that last November's
enfeebled 55 minute broadcast was made from.

Reconstruction of key parts of the Scopes' 'Great Monkey Trial' drawn
from original sources and the trial's transcripts.

The trial, Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925),
arose from a prosecution under Tennessee's 1925 'Butler Act' which
prohibited state funded schools from teaching " ... any theory that
denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and
to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."

Fully engaging, and at times very funny. Odd, though, to hear Ed Asner
putting the conservatives' position.

Cast
Narrator - Tyne Daly
Judge John Raulston - John Randolph
Attorney General Stewart - Harris Yulin
Williams Jennings Bryan - Edward Asner
Morgan - Danny Cooksey
John Thomas Scopes - Jeff Corbett
Clarence Darrow - Charles Durning
Shelton - Walt Goggins
Dudley Field Malone - Harold Gould
Arthur Garfield Hays - Gerrit Graham
Metcalf - Gerrit Graham
The Spectator - Peter Jacobs
Bailiff - Macon McCalman
General Ben McKenzie - Logan Ramsey
H.L. Mencken - Joe Spano
The Foreman - Joe Spano
Superintendent White - Ray Stricklyn
.