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Saturday-Night Theatre: Fanny's First Play

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

by Bernard Shaw
with Dilys Laye
'I hate to see dead people walking about: it is unnatural. And our respectable middle-class people are all as dead as mutton.'
IN THE PLAY:
The action takes place in 1911

(Dilys Laye is in 'Say Who You Are' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Preface:
Allan McClillans
Cecil Savoyard:
Ronald Herdman
Count O'Dowda:
Michael Kilgarriff
Mr Gilbey (Rob):
Hector Ross
Mrs Gilbey (Maria):
Betty Huntley-Wright
Juggins, the Butler:
Geoffrey Matthews
Miss Delaney (Darling Dora):
Dilys Lays
Mrs Knox (Amelia):
Betty Hardy
Mr Knox (Jo):
Timothy West
Margaret Knox:
Patricia Leventon
Lieutenant Duvallet:
Allan McClelland
Bobby Gilbey:
Ernest Myers
Narrator:
Preston Lockwood
Source: Radio Times

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