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Saturday-Night Theatre: Murder in Melbourne

on BBC Home Service Basic

An adaptation for radio of her novel by Dulcie Gray
with Richard Hurndall, Mary Wimbush, Beverley Dunn, Philip Leaver and Michael Turner.

Richard Quayle, a pilot for an Australian airline, arrives in Melbourne to ask his girl-friend, Anna Matheson, to marry him. He finds her dead in the bedroom of a squalid little hotel...

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Dulcie Gray
Production:
Audrey Cameron
Richard Quayle:
Richard Hurndall
Guy Brooks:
Bruce Stewart
Manager of the Buona Hotel:
Ralph Hallett
Dr Manton:
Keith Williams
Detective Transom:
Tom Watson
Detective-Inspector Peters, of the Melbourne Criminal Investigation Bureau:
Michael Turner
Gordon Frodsham:
Jeffrey Hodgson
Valerie Harding:
Mary Wimbush
Felix Milton:
Philip Leaver
Betty Ward:
Beverley Dunn
Mrs Matheson:
Shirley Cameron
Porter at the Buona Hotel:
Tom Watson
Bill Saunders:
Robert Hewitt
Sue Saunders:
Leila Blake
Janie Thomas:
Paddy Turner
Larry French:
Peter Noel Cook
Mrs Linette Barking:
Brenda Dunrich
Frank Ward:
Keith Williams
Telephone operator, air hostess, hotel receptionist, customers, policemen, and guests played by:
Nigel Anthony and members of the cast

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