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Monday Matinee presents: Boys in Brown

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A radio version of Reginald Beckwith's drama of life inside a Borstal Institution

Cast in order of speaking.
The play is set in a Borstal Institution in the years immediately following the second world war
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Variety Act I:
Reginald Beckwith
Variety Act 1:
Richard Waring
Matron:
Dorothy Holmes Gore
Bill Foster:
Bryan Forbes
Fatty Matthews:
John Stockbridge
Alfie Rawlings:
James Kenney
Sparrow Thompson:
Michael Harding
Bossy Phillips:
Peter Lindsay
Jackie Knowles:
Donald Hindle
Gormy Evans:
Hugh David
Johnson, a Borstal Officer:
Derek Birch
Harry:
Richard Waring
Jimmy:
Malcolm Knight
Plato Cartwright:
Alec McCowen
Richard Blatchley, the Governor:
Patrick Barr
Tigson, a Housemaster:
Peter Arne
Casey:
Roger Snowdon
John Knight, laundry instructor:
Edgar Norfolk
Spud Barker:
Ross Wilson
Basher Walker:
Brian Weske
Bobby:
Peter Bartlett
Source: Radio Times

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