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TUMBLEDOWN DICK

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

The book by Howard Spring adapted for radio in four parts by J. R. GREGSON with Wilfred Pickles
A Dickensian ' story about a country lad's Christmas in the Manchester of Shudehill and Tib Street.
1: Through the Night and Snow
Produced by HERBERT SMITH in the North of England
Broadcast on Dec. 7. 1966
Cast for the week:
Trombone, Bram Fisher

Contributors

Book By:
Howard Spring
Unknown:
J. R. Gregson
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Unknown:
Bram Fisher
Dick, the man:
Brian Trueman
Dick, the boy:
Peter Landon
Uncle Oswald Tubbs:
Wilfred Pickles
Dick's mother:
Rosalie Williams
Dick's father:
Tom Harrison
Harry:
Tom Harrison
Chief Constable:
John Blain
Lord Mayor:
John Broadbent
George Grimes:
John Broadbent
Lady Mayoress:
Norma Wilson
Alderman Biggs:
Harry Markham
George:
Frank Poynter
Alf Eckersley:
Frank Poynter
Uncle Henry:
Geoffrey Banks
Aunt Maria:
Ella Atkinson
Master Tom Figgis:
Willlam Cosham
'Guv'nor' Eckersley:
Robert Wallace
Bill Hepple:
Norman Somers
Gentleman George:
John Daglish
Young Walsingham:
Peter Mellor
Housekeeper:
Sybil Holroyd
Source: Radio Times

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