Michael Redgrave

Narrator (voice)

Myra Hess

Self (Pianist)

John Gielgud

Hamlet

Frederick Allen

Self (BBC Newsreader) (uncredited)

Bill

Self - Steam-Engine Driver (uncredited)

Elizabeth Jenkins

Self - Tim's Mother (uncredited)

Elvin Jenkins

Self - Tim's Father (uncredited)

Timothy James Jenkins

Self - Tim (uncredited)

Jennifer

Self - 5 Year-Old Girl (uncredited)

Frank Phillips

Self (BBC Newsreader) (uncredited)

Peter Robert

Self - RAF Pilot (uncredited)

George Woodbridge

Gravedigger (uncredited)

Humphrey Jennings

Director

Richard Addinsell

Original Music Composer

Basil Wright

Producer

Stewart McAllister

Editor

E.M. Forster

Writer

Fred Gamage

Director of Photography

Jock May

Sound Recordist

Ken Cameron

Sound Recordist

Alan Osbiston

Supervising Editor

Jenny Hutt

Negative Cutter

Muir Mathieson

Conductor