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From the Fifties: The Cocktail Party

Mon 9^th Oct 1961, 20:00 on BBC Home Service Basic

A comedy by T. S. Eliot
See panel and page 20

Author:: T. S. Eliot
Alexander MacColgie Gibbs:: Douglas Storm
Julia Shuttlethwaite:: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Peter Quilpe:: Hugh Dickson
Celia Coplestone:: Penelope Lee
The unidentified guest, later identified as Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly:: Marius Goring
Edward Chamberlayne:: Godfrey Kenton
Lavinia Chamberlayne:: Mary Wimbush
A nurse secretary:: Peggy Butt
The caterer's man:: Arthur Gomez

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7^th October 1961

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