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Saturday-Night Theatre: A Shilling for Candles

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A play by Rex Rienits adapted from the novel by Josephine Tey
with Denys Hawthorne as Detective-Inspector Grant

'I felt so bad about it I came back. When I found she wasn't anywhere on the road. I thought she must still be on the beach. And then I saw the police car, and the ambulance...'
(Repeated: Monday, 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Rex Rienits
From the novel by:
Josephine Tey
Producer:
Betty Davies
Detective-Inspector Grant:
Denys Hawthorne
Sgt Lillis:
Nigel Anthony
PC:
Leroy Lingwood
Robin Tisdall:
Michael Deacon
Mrs Pitts:
Marjorie Westbury
Sgt Williams:
Bruce Beeby
Sir George Burgoyne:
Humphrey Morton
Erica Burgoyne:
Sian Davies
Morgan:
Nigel Clayton
Marta Hallard:
Beth Boyd
Lydia Keats:
Pauline Letts
Judy Sellers:
Valerie Kirkbright
Clement Clements:
Peter Bartlett
Lord Edward Champneis:
John Justin
Mr Erskine:
James Thomason
The Prior:
John Wyse
Owen Hughes:
Peter Baldwin
Source: Radio Times

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