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Afternoon Theatre: The Wight Bridge

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A new play for radio by Geoffrey Hubbard

The time is 1851. Throughout England English engineering genius is working miracles in revolutionising the transport system. Railways, canals, roads - and bridges - transform the landscape. What has this got to do with a lepidopterist living in the Isle of Wight? The thing is, his mother doesn't enjoy the sea journey. So William Calthrop Boddington decides on a solution fitting to the age.

Contributors

Writer:
Geoffrey Hubbard
Flute played by:
Sebastian Bell
Producer:
Keith Williams
William Calthrop Boddington:
Peter Tuddenham
The Hon Gerald Mistley:
Charles Hodgson
Mrs Amelia Boddington:
Dorothy Lane
Ex-Inspector Fudge:
Will Leighton
Albert Greech:
Francis de Wolff
Mrs Adelaide Greech:
Marjorie Westbury
Flora:
Eva Haddon
Sophia:
Frances Jeater
General Whimbarrow:
John Wyse
Admiral Sir Lonsdale Gryppe:
Ralph Truman
The Rev Septimus Ogive:
Godfrey Kenton
Ellen:
Kathleen Helme
Other parts:
Peter Baldwin
Other parts:
Leonard Fenton
Other parts:
John Baddeley
Source: Radio Times

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