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The Days That Are Gone A memoir of the Busson-du Maurier family based on the books of DAPHNE DU MAURIER and adapted as two plays for radio by PHILIP LEAVER
1: The Blowing of the Glass with David Buck and Jane Wenham From their 18th-century French ancestors, the Busson-du Mauriers were to inherit talents far removed from the ancient craft of glass-blowing, practised by generations of the family.
with JONTY MILLER. GODFREY KENTON and JAMES THOMASON
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Jane Wenham is a National Theatre Player)
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm. The second play, ' The Fire in the Glass Saturday 11 July)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurier
Radio By:
Philip Leaver
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Jonty Miller.
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
James Thomason
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Narrator:
Barbara Bliss
Mathurin Busson:
Frederick Treves
Madeleine, his wife:
Cecile Chevreau
Robert, their eldest son:
David Buck
Pierre and Michel, their younger Sons:
Alan Barry
Pierre and Michel, their younger Sons:
John Rye
Michela as boy:
Imon Sturner
Sophie, their daughter:
Jane Wenham
Sophie, a child:
Audrey Murray
Cathie:
Patricia Gallimore
Edmi:
Deborah Dallas
Louis XV:
John Gabriel
Marie- Francoise:
Margaret Wolfit
Madame de Luart:
Mary Allen
Francois Duval:
John Bentley
Source: Radio Times

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