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York Mystery Plays

Catalogue reference: MS 4000/6/1/73

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MS 4000/6/1/73
Title
York Mystery Plays
Date
1973
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Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
Physical description
Items: 13
Administrative / biographical background

Parker's programme on the York Mystery Plays was a short item in an Omnibus programme about the York Festival, broadcast on BBC 1 in 1973. In this, Parker argued that the Mystery Plays were written to be spoken by craftsmen from the craft guilds of York and should therefore be performed by people with Yorkshire accents. He talked to craftsmen working in York Minster and in the local area about their work and asked them and other people from the local area to read extracts from the plays.

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York Mystery Plays