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Anthony Hopkins and his daughter Abigail Harrison appear on screen together for the first time In Alan Plater's dramatisation of Gwyn Thomas's autobiography. Hopkins plays the Welsh comic writer, playwright, broadcaster and raconteur who died in 1981. "I was an impudent, assertive child," writes Thomas, "given to making loud rash statements when everyone else had agreed that a long cautious silence was the only answer to our problems."
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Contributors

Author:
Gwyn Thomas: Alan Plater
Dramatised by:
Alan Plater
Producer:
Geraint Morris
Director:
Tristram Powell
Gwyn Thomas:
Anthony Hopkins
Lyn Thomas:
Sue Roderick
Gwyn's father:
Robert Pugh
Gwyn (aged 18):
Brendan O'Hea
Gwyn (aged 13):
Gavin Rhys Ashcroft
Walt Thomas Sr:
Bernard Lloyd
Walt Thomas Jr:
Richard Lynch
Nana Thomas:
Abigail Harrison
Dr Bronowski:
John Grillo
Chairman of Brains Trust:
John Edmunds
Headmaster:
Alan David
Headmaster's wife:
Ann Beach
Mr Metcalfe:
Sion Probert
Mrs Metcalfe:
Victoria Plucknett
Baker:
Robert Hands
Clarke:
James Arlon
Principal:
Benjamin Whitrow
Mrs Morris:
Rowena Cooper
Walford:
Geoffrey Hutchings
George Devine:
Ian McDiarmid

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