BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
Cast
Leo McKern
Galileo
Nigel Stock
Narrator / Sagredo / Cardinal Bellarmin / Pamphleteer / Peasant
Fergus McClelland
Andrea, the boy
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Sarti
George Roubicek
Ludovico
Anthony Morton
Priuli, the Curator
Paul Endersby
The Doge / Christopher Clavius
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Virginia
Martin Sterndale
Matti
Michael Peake
Senator
Darryl Read
Prince Cosimo de Medici
Vernon Dobtcheff
Philosopher
