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Afternoon Theatre: Selected for Friday: The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Bernard Shaw
A Sermon in Crude Melodrama
with William Sylvester

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
John Gibson
Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne
Babsy, a bumptious young slattern:
Margaret Walker
Lottie, a sentimental girl:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Hannah, elderly and wise:
Bessie Love
Jessie, good-natured but sharp-tongued:
Sally Travers
Emma, a sneak:
Dorothy Bibby
Elder Daniels:
Russell Napier
Blanco Posnet, evidently a blackguard:
William Sylvester
Strapper Kemp, a lad just turning into a man:
Derry Power
Feemy Evans, a young woman with impudent manners and battered good looks:
Kate Binchy
Sheriff Kemp, a stout man with large flat ears and a neck thicker than his head:
Kevin Flood
The Foreman of the Jury:
Harry Webster
Nestor, an old juryman, drunk:
Earle Grey
The Woman:
June Tobin
The Boys:
Alan Barry
The Boys:
Denys Hawthorne
The Boys:
Michael Spice
Source: Radio Times

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