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A Hundred Years of Humphrey Hastings or Life with a practical father: Part 4: 1904 - Like a Bird

on BBC Two England

Written by Richard Wade.
Starring Dudley Foster as Edward Hastings, Maggie Jones as Florence Hastings

'I flew like a bird, Florence, like a bird'. The head of the Hastings family did fly and flew in a glider made by the Special Effects Department of the BBC to drawings published in an edition of "Popular Mechanics", a magazine of the period. If you are a practical father then you are invited to share in the delights and disasters of leaving the ground 'like a bird'.

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Wade
Designer:
Roger Murray-Leach
Producer:
Ramsay Short
Director:
Peter R. Smith
Edward Hastings:
Dudley Foster
Florence Hastings:
Maggie Jones
Uncle Albert:
David Nettheim
Humphrey Hastings:
Michael Reubens
Sophy Hastings:
Adele Clover
Cook:
Dorothea Phillips
Emma:
Jane Enshawe
Policeman:
Cyril Cross

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