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Saturday Night Theatre: Walpamur and Plywood

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Alex Ferguson's play retells a piece of north-east folk history.
When Robert Lyon Master of Painting, went as an adult education tutor to the pit town of Ashington in the 1930s, he couldn't have known he would be starting a school of working-class painting which would persist almost to the present day.
Director Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Writer:
Alex Ferguson
Director:
Dave Sheasby
Robert Lyon:
Corin Redgrave
Tollie Charlton:
Derek Walmsley
Tom Watts:
John Branwell
Julia Johnson:
Christine Cox
Miss Grindky/Mrs Bailey:
Carole Copeland
Harry Watson:
Art Davies
George Brown:
David Begg
Davie Robson:
Joe Caffrey
Constable/Porter:
James Thackwray
Boy:
David Swinburne
Source: Radio Times

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