Matt Parker
BBC World Service
Production
Information
BBC World Service, 7th
January 2001
“’Timbuktu’ is a playful
fable set in medieval Africa, at once a celebration of a civilisation in its prime,
and a cautionary tale about the inexorable onset of modernity.”
Cast
Narrator Michael
Pennington
Mansa Musa Hugh Quarshie
Sotara Sophie
Okonedo
With Eddie Nestor George
Harris
Burt Caesar Shaun
Parkes
Leo Wringer Alex
Trinder
Director Jeremy
Mortimer