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A play for broadcasting by Compton Mackenzie, adapted from his novel
"Figure of Eight", with Phyllis Calvert as Lucy Arnold
Produced by Val Gielgud

Contributors

Author/adapted by:
Compton MacKenzie
Produced By:
Val Gielgud
The storyteller:
Michael Moray
Lucy Arnold, a ballet girl:
Phyllis Calvert
Mrs Arnold:
Laura Smithson
Samuel Arnold:
Edwin Ellis
Terence Manning:
James McKechnie
Robert Manning:
Frederick Lloyd
Lady Emily Manning, his mother:
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Miss Chibbett:
Gladys Young
Mrs Chibbett:
Dora Gregory
Abraham Lightheart:
Eliot Makeham
Mrs Lightheart:
Doris Gilmour
George:
Leslie Bradley
Mabel, a parlourmaid:
Beryl Laverick

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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