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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Secret Garden

on BBC Radio 4 FM

From the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted for radio by John Richmond
With Helen Worth as Mary Lennox, Violet Carson as Mrs Medlock

Mary Lennox was a selfish, spoilt child, who always had her own way with her ayah and the other Indian servants. But cholera strikes. It is then that Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire - a house of dark stairs and secrets.

BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adapted by:
John Richmond
Theme music composed by:
Alan Parker
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Mary Lennox:
Helen Worth
Mrs Medlock:
Violet Carson
Mrs Lennox, Mary's mother:
Merle Kessler
Lieut Charlesworth:
Mark Sheridan
Mrs Crawford, wife of the English Minister:
Rosalie Williams
Mrs Pelly:
Marah Stohl
Martha:
Susan Moverley
Ben Weatherstaff:
Tom Harrison
The Robin:
Percy Edwards
Dickon:
Richard Tolan
Mr Archibald Craven, Mary's Uncle:
Ronald Herdman
Colin, his son:
Timothy Woolgar
Nurse:
Mary Kilduff
Doctor:
Ronald Harvi
Indian servant/Sitar player:
Suraj Mian

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