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Afternoon Play: Fighting Shaw's Corner

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Lesley Bruce.

Prunella Scales plays Blanche Patch, George Bernard Shaw's brisk, respectable secretary. Her plans to be First Lady in his life are thwarted by his dragon housekeeper Mrs Laden and Lady Nancy Astor, recently retired from Parliament and in need of a "big project".

Contributors

Writer:
Lesley Bruce
Director:
Claire Grove
Pianist:
Helen Crayford
Blanche:
Prunella Scales
Lady Nancy Astor:
Sian Phillips
Mrs Laden:
Ellie Haddington
John:
Tom Smith
FE Loewenstein:
Gerard McDermott
Stephen:
David Timson
George Bernard Shaw:
John Rowe
Source: Radio Times

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