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by H. F. Rubinstein.
Play adapted for television and produced by Michael Barry.
The play ranges over many years to cover the lives of two men. They are old men today. They have never met. But the pattern of their hope and ambition has threads that are strangely interwoven as we go back to watch the progress of their lives.
(Second performance)

(to 16.30)

Contributors

Author:
H. F. Rubinstein
Adapter/producer:
Michael Barry
Peter:
Michael Anthony
His mother:
Louise Hampton
Ruth:
Elaine Wodson
Tom, his son:
John Mackwood
Edith, Tom's wife:
Joan Newell
Paul:
Andrew Osborn
Eva:
Joan Carol
Gerda (as a child):
Jill Mason
Gerda (as a woman):
Muriel Pavlow
A journalist:
Desmond Keith
A landlady:
Eileen Draycott
A nurse:
Winifred Hill
A Housekeeper:
Marguerite Young

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