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SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE

on BBC Home Service Basic

The Chequer Board
A play adapted by Stephen Grenfell from the novel by Nevil SHUTE with Maurice Denham
Trader
Faulkner Nigel Anthony
'Tis all a chequer board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for
Pieces 'plays:
Hither and thither moves, and males, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closer lays
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Adapted By:
Stephen Grenfell
Novel By:
Nevil Shute
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Faulkner Nigel Anthony
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Hughes:
Austin Trevor
Hodder:
Bruce Condell
Jackie Turner:
Maurice Denham
Mollie Turner:
Margaret Wolfit
Al Kovacs:
Stephen Thorne
Jim Dakers:
Donald McKillop
Schultz:
John Baddeley
Frobisher:
Lewis Stringer
Colonel McCulloch:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Abe Lorimer:
Tommy Eytle
Bessie:
Eva Stuart
Dave Lesurier:
Nigel Anthony
Grace Trefusis:
Elizabeth Morgan
Philip Morgan:
Trader Faulkner
Mrs Morgan:
Molly Rankin
Chang:
John Ruddock
Ma Nay- Htohn:
Delia Paton
Utt Nee:
Andrew Sachs
Thet Shay:
Timothy Harley
Mark Curtis:
Ronald Wilson

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