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A Book at Bedtime

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Nights at the Alexandra by WILLIAM TREVOR abridged in five episodes by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Denys Hawthorne (1)
'I am a 58-year old man - a cinema proprietor without a cinema - yet when I sit among the empty seats, memory is enough.'
Harry remembers how Frau Messinger and her German husband changed the course of his young life when they brought the magic of the silver screen to his provincial Irish home.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Frau Messinger
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
Source: Radio Times

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