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Sunday Play: The Reith Affair

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

By Michael Hastings
with John Sessions as John Reith, Keeley Hawes as Muriel, Samuel West as Charlie Bowser and Tracy Wiles as Maysie.

The triangular relationship between the future founder of the BBC, his fiancee Muriel and his best friend Charlie.
John Reith's personal life was turbulent and full of contradictions. Yet these paradoxes would soon fuel the trajectory of the world's greatest broadcasting corporation.

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Contributors

Writer:
Michael Hastings
Music:
Barrington Pheloung
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
John Reith:
John Sessions
Muriel:
Keeley Hawes
Charlie Bowser:
Samuel West
Maysie:
Tracy Wiles
Jean Reith:
Martha Leishman
Peter Eckersley:
Alastair Danson
Chamberlain:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Baldwin:
John Turner
[Actor]:
Timothy Bateson
[Actor]:
David Collings
[Actor]:
Hugh Dickson
[Actor]:
Derek Waring
[Actress]:
Jenny Lee
[Actor]:
Christopher Wright
[Actor]:
Brian Parr
[Actress]:
Louisa ffolkes
Source: Radio Times

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