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The Family Reunion

on BBC Home Service Basic

A play by T. S. Eliot
1888-1965 arranged for broadcasting by Raymond Raikes with
Fabia Drake, Barbara Couper Dilys Hamlett and Gabriel Woolf
The scene is laid in 'Wishwood,' a country house in the North. One evening in late March.
Produced by Raymond Raikes who writes:
The Family Reunion has been described as a rare manifestation of the power of language to populate the theatre of the mind: it makes an exceptional impact, therefore. as Broadcast Drama. I regard it as a privilege on this occasion that I have been given the opportunity of revising and rethinking my earlier radio interpretation of one of the finest plays by this great poet of our times. The play was recorded and broadcast in the Home Service as a tribute to the late T S Eliot.
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Contributors

A stage play By:
T. S. Eliot
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by:
Raymond Raikes
Amy, Dowager Lady Monchensey:
Fabia Drake
Her cousin, Mary:
Dilys Hamlett
Her eldest son, Harry:
Gabriel Woolf
Her younger sister, Ivy:
Mary Wimbush
Her younger sister, Violet:
Olga Lindo
Her younger sister, Agatha:
Barbara Couper
Brother of her deceased husband:
Colonel the Hon Gerald Piper: Edward Chapman
Brother of her deceased husband:
The Hon Charles Piper: John Boxer
Mary, daughter of a deceased cousin of cousin of Lady Monchensey:
Dilys Hamlett
Denman, her parlourmaid:
Patricia Leventon
Harry, Lord Monchensey, Amy's eldest son:
Gabriel Woolf
Downing, his servant and chauffeur:
Stephen Thorne
Dr Warburton:
James Dale
Sgt Winchell:
Norman Scace

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