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The Saturday Play: Sorry, Wrong Number

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in William Keighley's 1950 production of Lucille Fletcher's classic drama of the bedridden, hypochondriac heiress who dials a wrong number and hears two men plotting a murder - her murder. "The client says he doesn't want her to suffer long.... He wants it to look like a robbery!" declares the unknown voice.

With the Radio Theatre Company.

Original 1950 recording by William Keighley.

Adapted for BBC Radio 4 by Toby Horton

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucille Fletcher
Unknown:
William Keighley
Adapted by:
Toby Horton
Leona Stevenson:
Barbara Stanwyck
Henry Stevenson:
Burt Lancaster
Source: Radio Times

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