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The Saturday Play: Charley's Aunt

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Brandon Thomas's energetic farce - adapted by Jonathan Hall - is performed in front of a packed audience at Manchester Grammar School.

Set in the charmed world of an Oxford College, circa 1892, Jack and Charley are madly in love with the sweetest girls in the world - Amy and Kitty. But how to get through to them before their dastardly guardian, Mr Spettigue, whisks them off to the wilds of Scotland? Salvation appears in the form of a telegram from Charley's longlost benevolent aunt from Brazil, Donna Lucia...

Contributors

Author:
Brandon Thomas
Adapted by:
Jonathan Hall
Director:
Polly Thomas
Jack:
John Griffin
Charley:
Morgan George
Lord Babberley:
Chris Langham
Amy:
Rina Mahoney
Sir Francis:
Derek Griffiths
Stephen:
James Quinn
Kitty:
Fenella Woolgar
Donna:
Brigit Forsyth
Ela:
Alison Darling

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