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The Wednesday Play: Toggle

on BBC One London

by Ian Roberts
Starring Alan Badel as Rory Farquhar
with Helen Lindsay as Celia Farquhar, Moray Watson as Nigel Selwyn, Mary Webster as Val Selwyn, Rosemary Leach as Jean Marfield, Daphne Heard as Nan, Raymond Armstrong as Tom Sackville and Anthony Kemp as Torquil

Toggle - it's the nickname of eight-year-old Torquil - was adopted in the hope that he would stabilise the marriage of Nigel and Val. But the hope is unfulfilled: Val still runs off with other men. So Toggle becomes the problem of Nigel's sister Celia and brother-in-law Rory. And since their own children have grown up and gone out into the world, Rory is less than delighted to find the calm of his beautiful home disturbed.

"A very good Wednesday Play. Good, but bruising" (Nancy Banks-Smith, Sun)
"...had story, point and superb acting. If the BBC switchboard was jammed it should only have been with grateful calls" (Virginia Ironside, Daily Mail)
"The author has the inventive wit of Evelyn Waugh" (Observer)

Contributors

Writer:
Ian Roberts
Incidental music composed by:
Michael Dress
Designer:
Marilyn Taylor
Producer:
Graeme McDonald
Director:
Waris Hussein
Rory Farquhar:
Alan Badel
Celia Farquhar:
Helen Lindsay
Nigel Selwyn:
Moray Watson
Val Selwyn:
Mary Webster
Jean Marfield:
Rosemary Leach
Nan:
Daphne Heard
Tom Sackville:
Raymond Armstrong
Torquil:
Anthony Kemp

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