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Newseries A Town Like Alice

on BBC One London

by NEVIL SHUTE
A new four-part adaptation starring with 1: Jean Paget, an attractive care-free girl is taken prisoner by the Japanese shortly before the fall of Singapore. While the men are taken off to a prison camp, Jean, together with other English women and children, is forced to walk across the length and breadth of Malaya with very little food and no medical supplies.
Into this living hell comes a benefactor in the guise of a good-natured, handsome Australian - Joe Harman. In Malaysia and Britain:
Dr Kennedy PETER COLLINGWOOD
Written by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON and TOM HEGARTV Produced by HENRY CRAWFORD
Directed by DAVID STEVENS * (Part 2 tomorrow at 9.25 pm) 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Nevil Shute
Unknown:
Joe Harman.
Unknown:
Dr Kennedy Peter Collingwood
Written By:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Unknown:
Tom Hegartv
Produced By:
Henry Crawford
Directed By:
David Stevens
Jean Paget:
Helen Morse
Joe Harman:
Bryan Brown
Noel Strachan:
Gordon Jackson
Mrs Frith:
Dorothy Alison
Sergeant Mifune:
Yuki Shimoda
Sally Wilson-Hayes:
Anna Volska
Derek Wilson-Hayes:
Donald MacDonald
Mrs Horsefall:
Jennifer West
Mrs Collard:
Pat Evison
Marlene Collard:
Mandy Boocock
Rita Collard:
Rebecca Marshall
Audrey Forbes:
Debbie Baile
Eileen Holland:
Cecily Polson
Robyn Holland:
-Melissa Crawford
Bill Holland:
John Allen
Freddie Holland:
Sean Hinton
Jane Holland:
Lucy Bell
Johnnie Horsefall:
Crispian Ashby
Donald Paget:
John Howard
Tommy Smythe:
Patrick Dickson
Ben Leggatt:
Ken Brown
Captain Sugamo:
Richard Narita
Captain Yoniata:
Hatsuo Uda
Major Nemu LIM:
Beng Choon
Japanese Lieutenant:
Akio Fukuwa
Mat Amin:
Zain Ariff
Suleiman:
Zainal Aziz
James McFadden:
-Anthony Groser
Lester Robinson:
John Lee
Miss Carter:
Joan Lord

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