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Saturday-Night Theatre

on BBC Home Service Basic

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presents
Derek Birch in 6 FEAR TO TREAD'
A radio play by C. E. Webber adapted from the novel by Michael Gilbert
Cast in order of speaking:
The scene is London. The year, 1947
Production by Frederick Bradnum

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Birch
Play By:
C. E. Webber
Novel By:
Michael Gilbert
Production By:
Frederick Bradnum
Wilfred Wetherall, headmaster of a secondary school:
Derek Birch
Alastair Todd, a journalist:
Peter Howell
Alice Wetherall Wilfred's wife:
Patricia Hilliard
Luigi, a restaurateur:
Jeffrey Segal
Peggy Donovan Wilfred's secretary sister of Patsy.:
Judy Tatham
Patsy Donovan, a Police Sergeant:
John Welch
Crowdy, a railwayman:
Frank Atkinson
Prince, a one-eyed spiv:
Joe Sterne
Mrs Crowdy, Crowdy's wife:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Bert Fisher, a lorry driver:
John Gabriel
Peter Crowdy, a schoolboy:
Anthony Green
Annie, a publican:
June Monkhouse
Higgins, a busker:
Jack Shaw
Red, a thug:
Eric Anderson
A woman of the streets:
Aline Waites
Detective-Inspector Clark:
John Ruddock
Superintendent Huth:
Jack Allen
Miss Toup, a spinster:
Mairhi Russell
Sammy Donovan Peggy's young brother.:
Timothy Harley
Henry Holloman, patent medicine manufacturer..:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Cameroni, Holloman's house keeper:
Grace Allardyce
A man in a queue:
John Gabriel
Mr Roberts, an editor:
Jack Shaw
Arthur Harbart, a business man:
Eric Anderson

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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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