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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Englishman Abroad

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Christopher Douglas
With Michael Cochrane, Robert Lang, Michael Kitchen and David Threlfall.

The Englishman was Douglas Jardine, Captain of England, and he went to Australia determined to destroy 'those ruddy convicts', Australia.

"I listened with great interest at the beginning and with warm praise by the end."
(Wisden Cricket Monthly).
"Welcome to a new playwright Christopher Douglas, whose first piece was outstandingly done. Do your best to get near a radio today." (The Guardian).

Contributors

Writer:
Christopher Douglas
Director:
Jane Morgan
MCC - Douglas Jardine (Capt):
Michael Cochrane
MCC - Gubby Allen:
Robert East
MCC - Bob Wyatt:
Haydn Wood
MCC - The Nawab of Pataudi:
Sam Dastor
MCC - Harold Larwood:
Michael Kitchen
MCC - Bill Voce:
David Threlfall
MCC - Bill Bowes:
Peter Joyce
MCC - Maurice Leyland:
John Church
MCC - Pelham Warner (Manager):
Robert Lang
MCC - Perrin:
Patrick Barr
MCC - Higson:
John Bott
Australia - Bill Woodfull (Captain):
Edmund Pegge
Australia - Donald Bradman:
Christopher Blake
Australia - Jack Fingleton:
Nick Tate
Australia - Vic Richardson:
Damon Sanders
Australia - Stan McCabe:
Peter Dahlsen
Australia - Tim Wall:
Graham Faulkner
Australia - Oxlade:
Philip Dunbar
Australia - Jeanes:
Gordon Reid
Jack Ryder:
Gordon Gostelow
Allan Kippax:
Michael McStay
Alf Noble:
Martin Friend
Gaumont British News:
Christopher Douglas
Arthur Carr (Notts Capt):
Stephen Thorne
Commander O'Sullivan:
Michael Spice
George V:
Brian Haines

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