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Christmas Night Theatre: Cry Wolf

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Val Gielgud: freely based on some short stories by 'Saki'
with Grizelda Hervey, Joan Matheson, Mary Wimbush, Norman Shelley and Christopher Guinee as Clovis.

Many years ago when Romance accompanied the fabled Orient Express its passengers included Spies, King's Messengers, Millionaires and titled ladies of great beauty. Often they had strange tales to tell...

Special wolf effects by Malcolm Clark of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

(Mary Wimbush is in "Butley" at the Criterion, London)

Followed by an interlude
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Special effects:
Malcolm Clark
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Clovis:
Christopher Gulnee
The Baroness:
Grizelda Hervey
Strudwarden:
Norman Shelley
Lena:
Joan Matheson
Peasant Woman:
Mary Wimbush
Bilsiter:
David Jarrett
Mary Hampton:
Betty Baskcomb
Col Hampton:
Gerald Cross
Lord Pabham:
Michael Kilgarriff
Mrs Hooper:
Eva Stuart
Eshley:
Lewis Stringer
Adela:
Katherine Parr
Elsie:
Sheila Grant
Van Cheele:
Leslie Heritage
The Boy:
David Gooderson
Miss Van Cheele:
Betty Baskcomb
Amalie:
Eva Stuart
Baron Gruebel:
Gerald Cross
Conrad:
Michael Kilgarriff
Source: Radio Times

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