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The Candle of Darkness: Part 3

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
The homicidal maniac in the little Scottish town Steve Gardiner is visiting is no nearer discovery. His friend Jimmy Morton suggests it might be his father, the father appears to suspect his son, while the servant in the Morton household, Delia, has ideas of her own.
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Boyd
Producer:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Delia Dewar:
Effie Morrison
Jimmy Morton:
Jimmy Logan
Wilfred Morton:
Leonard Maguire
Lindy Marshall:
Hannah Gordon
Det-Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
An old lady Jean:
Taylor Smith
Romilly Foster:
Douglas Murchie
A drunk:
Phil McCall
Bill Williams:
Glen Michael
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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