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THE WORKHOUSE DONKEY

on Network Three

by John Arden adapted by BENNETT MAXWELL with Edward Chapman and Peter Pratt
' No effort in Westminster is worth a damned thing by itself without a sound rammed foundation in the provincial localities. As far as this locality is concerned if we permit the Tories to fix our police force, we're on t'road into mucky marsh, and your old uncle Charlie knows it.'
Labour
The Police
The Electorate
At the Copacabana Club
Music composed by JOHN ADDISON conducted by MICHAEL MOORES
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Second broadcast during THE INTERVAL (9.40*-9.50*)
A gramophone record of Milhaud's Scaramouche played by VITYA VRONSKY and VICTOR BABIN (two pianos)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arden
Adapted By:
Bennett Maxwell
Unknown:
Edward Chapman
Unknown:
Peter Pratt
Composed By:
John Addison
Conducted By:
Michael Moores
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Played By:
Vitya Vronsky
Unknown:
Victor Babin
Alderman Boocock:
John Boxer
Mrs Boocock:
Barbara Mitchell
Alderman Charlie Butter-thwaite:
Edward Chapman
Hopefast:
Andrew Sachs
Hardnutt:
Ralph Truman
Hickleton:
Basil Jones
Alderman Sir Harold Sweetman:
Eric Anderson
Lady Sweetman:
Cecile Chevreao
Maurice Sweetman:
Kenneth Fortescue
F J:
Norman Claridg*
Colonel Feng:
Patrick Barb
Superintendent Wiper:
Peter Claughton
Sergeant Lumber:
John Baddeley
P C Liversedge:
Leroy Lingwood
P C Leftwich:
John Ruddock
Dr Wellington Blomax:
Peter Pratt
Wellesley:
Caroline Monkhouse
Gloria:
Margaret Wolfit
Stonemason:
Gabriel Woolf
Hostesses:
Janet Milner,
Hostesses:
Ann Pidgeon
Hostesses:
Apple Brook
First Journalist:
Garard Green
Second Journalist:
Peter Bartlett

Network Three

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