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Saturday-Night Theatre: No Thoroughfare

on BBC Home Service Basic

by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
with John Justin as George Vendale

'As I strolled past the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury the other day I thought of the many babes who had lain in the basket outside the Hospital's gate: and of the many footsteps that had hurried away from that spot, leaving a small life behind them. Of one set of footsteps in particular, and the strange story with its mystery and its terror, which began in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, on a chill November night....'

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Author:
Wilkie Collins
Adapted by:
Mollie Hardwick
Producer:
Hugh Stewart
The Lady:
Nicolette Bernard
Sally Goldstraw:
Molly Rankin
Walter Wilding:
Lewis Stringer
Mr Bintrey:
Patrick Barr
Joey Ladle:
Tom Bowman
Jarvis:
Alan Haines
George Vendale:
John Justin
Jules Obenreizer:
Gabriel Woolf
Marguerite Obenreizer:
Maryka Mann
Madame Dor:
Dorothy Black
Morris:
Garard Green
Maitre Voigt:
Arthur Ripley
Treasurer:
Kevin Flood
First house agent:
Alan Haines
Second house agent:
Garard Green
Bank clerk:
Kevin Flood

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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