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'TAKING PAINS'

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

The short story by W. W. Jacobs dramatised for radio by Lionel Brown
Characters in order of speaking:
Silvanus Key suffers from rheumatism. The fun begins when the reluctant Silvanus is subjected to the peculiar brand of healing practised by a Mr. Punshon, at whose hands he loses his physical symptoms but develops a neurosis....
(The recorded broadcast of May 10 In the Light Programme)
Plays produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Story By:
W. W. Jacobs
Unknown:
Lionel Brown
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mrs Key:
Barbara Lott
Silvanus Key:
Eric Anderson
Mr Daviot:
Keith Williams
Mrs Daviot:
Eva Stuart
Dr Johnson:
Wilfred Babbage
Mr Punshon:
Hamilton Dyce
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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