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The Outcasts of Poker Flat

By: Bret Harte
Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier tells the story of the outcasts in this adaptation of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, first published in Overland Monthly in 1868. In the second of his tales of the Californian gold rush, Poker Flat is a mining settlement in a downward spiral.

"Theatre Royal" is a series of radio dramas first broadcast by the BBC in 1953 and in the USA soon after. Starring many of Britain's finest actors, it was the only radio series in which Lord Olivier took a major role.

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A professional and entertaining performance of an illustrative and poignant work of Bret Harte and of a moment in California history. In one of his more generous observations of Harte by Mark Twain in Mark Twain's Autobiography is, "In the early days I liked Bret Harte and so did the others, but by and by I got over it; so also did the others. He couldn't keep a friend permanently. He was bad, distinctly bad; he had no feeling and he had no conscience."

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Short performance that gives you a great outline of the story

Performance, specially Lawrence Olivier, is excellent. I am surprised they can pack the whole esence ofnthe story in such concise way.

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