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' Crompton Way'
A play by Mollie Greenhalgh about Samuel Crompton , the inventor of the spinning mule, based on the book by T. Thompson
Narrator, June Pickles Fiddler, Reginald Stead
Produced by Nan Macdonald

Contributors

Play By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Unknown:
Samuel Crompton
Book By:
T. Thompson
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald
Samuel Crompton,a boy:
Peter Broadbent
Samuel Crompton,a man:
George Hagan
Betty, his mother:
Norma Wilson
Rebecca, his sister:
Anne Phillips
'Uncle Alexander:
Eric Naden
Parson Folds:
Herbert Smith
Dick Arkwright, the barber:
Fred Fairclough
Richmal Naden:
Rosalie Williams
Mary Pimlott:
Joan Sharp
Tommy Martin:
Alan Mitcheson
Peter Ainsworth:
John Broadbent
Bob Greenhalgh:
Herbert Smith
John Pilkington:
John Wardle
Source: Radio Times

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