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The Saturday Play: The Ballad of Billy Rainbow

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Tony Ramsay's play is a darkly comic detective story set against a background of witchcraft in Elizabethan Norfolk. Billy Rainbow is an actor on the London stage. Following a little difficulty involving a butcher's wife from Wapping, he is persuaded to go to the country and reprise his stage role as an unmasker of devils on the the estate of Sir Edmund Ferrule - where the locals have been troubled by an apparent spate of Satanism.

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Ramsay
Billy:
Michael Maloney
Abigail:
Daniela Nardini
Sir Edmund:
Trevor Peacock
Richard:
David Timson
Jocelyn:
Christopher Scott
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Jolley:
David Redgrave
Lady Ferrule:
Richenda Carey
Molly:
Alison Pettitt
Maddox:
Roger Walker
Creed:
David Thorpe
Source: Radio Times

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