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AFTERNOON THEATRE

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Miles Malleson in The Chimes by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised for radio by Mollie Hardwick
Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen
A goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in. The action takes place in London on New Year's Eve, 1845. The Voice of the Bells The Amhrosian Singers
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Harold Blackburn broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Conducted By:
Christopher Whelen
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Harold Blackburn
Narrator:
Gordon Davies
Toby (Trotty) Veck:
Miles Malleson
The Voice of the Great Bell:
Harold Blackburn
Meg, Trotty's daughter:
Carol Marsh
Richard, betrothed to Meg:
William Eedle
Alderman Cute:
Joss Ackland
Mr Filer:
Arthur Ridley
Tugby:
Willoughby Goddard
Sir Joseph Bowley:
Haydn Jones
Mr Fish:
John Bryning
Lady Bowley:
Hilda Kriseman
Will Fern:
Frank Windsor
Lilian:
Hilda Schroder
Mrs Tugby, formerly Mrs Chicken stalker:
Vivienne Chatterton
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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