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The Old Men at the Zoo: 2: Godmanchester's Plan

on BBC Two England

by Angus Wilson
A version for television in five parts by Troy Kennedy Martin

The death of a young keeper has not provoked the public enquiry Simon Carter had hoped for. The zoo's director can only think of his forthcoming television lecture.

(Subtitles on Ceefax page 270)

Contributors

Author:
Angus Wilson
Adapted by:
Troy Kennedy Martin
Music composed and conducted by:
Simon Rogers
Lighting:
John King
Script Editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Christopher Robilliard
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
Stuart Burge
Simon Carter:
Stuart Wilson
Lord Godmanchester:
Robert Morley
Edwin Leacock:
Maurice Denham
Sir Robert Falcon:
Robert Urquhart
Emile Englander:
Marius Goring
Mr Sanderson:
Andrew Cruickshank
Dr Langley-Beard:
John Phillips
Matthew Price:
Richard Wordsworth
Lord Oresby:
Roland Culver
Strawson:
Barry Stanton
Martha Carter:
Toria Fuller
Diana Price:
Shelagh Fraser
Harriet Leacock:
Jan Harvey
Dr Erskine:
James Grant
Mrs Purrett:
Priscilla Morgan
Hinkley Barton:
Rufus Collins
Maryon:
Jacquie Cassidy
Dolly Grantallen:
Fleur Chandler
Steve Kyte:
Michael Siberry
Mrs Leacock:
Anna Wing
Alfred Hancock:
Robert Arden
Sultan Neri:
Ahmed Khalil
French interviewer:
Daniel Andre Pageon
Newsreader:
Jill Meager
Reporter:
Gayle Coleman
Frontman at lecture:
Gabriel Woolf
Commissionaire:
Rio Fanning
Johnstone:
David Cole
Violet Carter:
Kipper Ellis
Reggie Carter:
Alan Renton

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