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The Ballad of Peckham Rye

on BBC Home Service Basic

An Entertainment for Radio
Words by MURIEL SPARK
Music by TRISTRAM CARY Script and production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Other voices: Norma Griffin, Hilda Kriseman , Will Leighton Barbara Mitchell and members of the cast with William Davies (keyboard) and an instrumental ensemble conducted by THE COMPOSER Broadcast on May 27, 1962. in the Third Programme
The programme was awarded the 1962 Italia Prize

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel Spark
Music By:
Tristram Cary
Production By:
Christopher Holme
Unknown:
Norma Griffin
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Leighton Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
William Davies
Dougal Douglas, M A Edinburgh:
Frank Duncan
Dixie Morse, typist:
Denise Bryer
Humphrey Place, refrigerator engineer, her fiance:
Bill Horsley
Mavis Crewe, her mother:
Grizelda Hervev
Arthur Crewe, her step-father:
Julian Somers
Leslie Crewe, her step-brother:
Andrew Irvine
Mr. Druce, Managing Director Meadows, Meade and Grindly:
Leslie Perrins
Merle Coverdale, Head of Typing Pool:
Betty Hardy
Mr Weedin, Personnel Manager:
Frank Partington
Connie Weedin, typist, his daughter:
Anne Beresford
Elaine Kent, senior process controller:
Sheila Grant
Trevor Lomas, L C C electrician:
Larry Martyn
Beauty, shop assistant:
Peggy Butt
Collie Gould:
Anthony Hall
Mr Willis, Managing Director Drover Willis's:
Tom Watson
Joyce Willis, his wife:
Charlotte Mitchell
Miss Frierne, a landlady:
Janet Burnell
Miss Cheeseman, a retired actress:
Vivienne Chatterton
Nelly Mahone:
June Tobin

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