Cairo trilogy

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Naguib Mahfouz     The Cairo Trilogy        Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.    Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz the drama was recorded on the    streets of Cairo.         Music by Sacha Puttnam     Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon     Producer/Director: John Dryden     A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.        Three episodes of app 58 mins each, cut into halves by me.     Broadcast 18 and 25 Mar 2011 and 1 Apr 2011 @ 21:00 on BBC Radio 4        Radiolistings says:    Originally a Classic Serial, it was repeated as a Friday Play.    First broadcast on 20061015, 20061022, 20061029 respectively.    The BBC announcements called it a repeat indirectly, but this info is not provided by the BBC itself.     Episode 1    1/3. Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.        This episode begins at the end of the First World War and culminates in a popular uprising in March 1919 when the eldest    son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause.        Cast:     Old Kamal...........Omar Sharif     Young Kamal.......Karim Fouda     Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab.....Ihab Sakkout      Amina..............Caroline Khalil      Fahmy..............Mena Reda      Yasin................Tamer Nasrat      Miriam..............Ola Roshdy        Other cast members: Rena Malak, Yara Goubran, Zeinab Moubarak, Maryam El Khoshed, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif    Nour, Shirine El Ansari, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim, Ahmed Nour, Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry,    Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.     Episode 2    2/3. Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.         This episode begins is the late 1920s with Egypt nominally independent but still under British influence, and ends in the    mid 1930s with an outbreak of typhoid which has a tragic effect on the family.        Cast:     Old Kamal......Omar Sharif     Kamal............Amr Waked     Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab...Ihab Sakkout      Aida...............Shirine El Ansari      Zanuba...........Maryam El Khoshed      Zubayda..........Zeinab Moubarak      Yasin..............Tamer Nasrat        Other cast members: Rena Malak, Caroline Khalil, Yara Goubran, Ola Roshdy, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour,    Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim, Ahmed Nour, Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry, Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.     Episode 3    3/3. The final part of Naguib Mahfouz's masterpiece, recorded on the streets of Cairo.        This episode begins in the 1940s with the Second World War in progress. It has a devastating effect on the family business    and one of the grandchildren is sucked into a newly emerging radical Islamist movement.        Cast:     Old Kamal............Omar Sharif     Kamal..................Amr Waked     Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab....Ihab Sakkout      Ahmad................Sedky Sakhar      Munim.................Ahmed Nour      Sawsan...............Dina Nadim      Badur..................Radwa Elgabry        Other cast members: Tamer Nasrat, Rena Malak, Caroline Khalil, Yara Goubran, Zeinab Moubarak, Ola Roshdy, Nairy Avedissian,    Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim , Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry, Mika Thabet,    Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.    Credit goes to the original poster.       

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.