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SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

For the ninetieth birthday of SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Letter adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES from the short story and the play with Googie Withers
Stephen Murray
Carleton Hobbs
The action takes place on a plantation in the Malay Peninsula and at Singapore. Period-about 1920
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Googie Withers
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
A Quiet Voice:
Peter Pratt
Leslie:
Googie Withers
Geoffrey Hammond:
Gordon Faith
The Head-Boy:
Timothy Harley
Hassan, a Malay servant:
Kristopher Kum
John Withers, the Assistant District Officer:
Glyn Dearman
Robert Crosbie, Leslie's husband:
Stephen Murray
Howard Joyce:
Carleton Hobbs
Ong Chi Seng:
Andrew Sachs
Mrs Parker, a prison matron:
Molly Rankin
Chung Hi, a Chinese general dealer:
John Ruddock
Ah Sing:
Paul Tann
A Chinese woman:
Pik-Sen Lim
Mrs Joyce:
Vivienne Chatterton
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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