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Afternoon Theatre: The Search

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Kay McManus
with Patience Collier and Elizabeth Proud

Adelaide Beckett the Poet, famous also as a radical and a feminist, is now in her 80s. These are definite facts, but nothing else can be learnt about the lady which is either definite or a fact.

(Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co.: Pat Nye is in 'Reunion in Vienna' at the Piccadilly, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Kay McManus
Producer:
Jane Graham
TV producer:
David Gooderson
His secretary:
Kate Binchy
Ann Foxley:
Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Foxley:
Dorothy Edwards
Mary Sugden:
Hilda Schroder
Elspeth Winter:
Pat Nye
Landlord:
William Eedle
Mr Jenkins Jnr:
John Rowe
Mr Jenkins Snr:
Wilfrid Carter
Adelaide Beckett:
Patience Collier
Source: Radio Times

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