The
Making of ‘Morning Heroes’
BBC Radio
Production
Information
BBC Radio 9th
November 1985
“More than a decade after
the 1918 Armistice, Arthur Bliss wrote his ‘symphony for orator, chorus and
orchestra’, Morning Heroes. The work had grown out of his bitter experience of
the Great War, in which his brother Kennard was among the millions of young men
who died. In this programme Malcolm Brown draws largely on previously
unpublished letters to depict the varied response to the war of Arthur and his
brother.”
Cast
Narrator John Westbrook
Arthur Bliss Michael
Pennington
Kennard Bliss Nigel Havers
and with Betty Kennard
Davis, the brothers’ cousin, and the composer’s widow, Lady Bliss.
Producer Alan Haydock