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The First Lady: I Don't Like Him

on BBC One London

by Terence Dudley
Starring Thora Hird, Robert Keegan, James Grout and Henry Knowles

A desperate woman tells Sarah a dreadful story. The story so shocks Sarah that she embarks on a crusade in defence of a man whose only crime, it would seem, is that he can't swim. Had Henry Jackson been able to swim he could have saved the life of a child, but the Coroner has angrily expressed the view that an attempt should have been made, whether he could swim or not. Public reaction was savage, and Jackson is now without a home and a job. What right, asks Sarah, has a Court to make emotional comment or moral judgment?

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Terence Dudley
Series devised by/From an initial idea by:
Alan Plater
From an initial idea by:
Philip Levene
Script Editor:
Gerry Davis
Designer:
Moira Tait
Director:
Lennie Mayne
Henry Jackson:
Clyde Pollitt
Old woman:
Winifred Hill
Ada Jackson:
Dorothy Reynolds
Tom Danby:
Henry Knowles
Sarah Danby:
Thora Hird
Foley:
Eric Dodson
Beth Warner:
Diane Appleby
John Houghton:
John Stratton
Will Tarrant:
Robert Keegan
George Kingston:
James Grout
Margaret Kingston:
Margaret John
Watkinson:
Noel Howlett
Mrs. Watkinson:
Aileen Raymond
Party Guest:
Harold Reese
Party Guest:
Joan Mane

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