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The Private Life of Hilda Tablet

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

A Parenthesis for Radio by Henry Reed
with Mary O'Farrell and Hugh Burden

(First broadcast on May 24, 1954; seventh broadcast)
See page 42

Contributors

Writer:
Henry Reed
The music composed by:
Donald Swann
Producer:
Douglas Cleverdon
Hilda Tablet, a composeress:
Mary O'Farrell
Herbert Reeve, a scholar:
Hugh Burden
Stephen Shewin:
Carleton Hobbs
Connie, his wife:
Gwen Cherrell
Elsa Strauss, a singer:
Marjorie Westbury
Sir Eric Tablet, Hilda's father:
Norman Shelley
Lady Tablet, Hilda's mother:
Susan Richmond
Evelyn Baxter Hilda's secretary:
Colin Campbell
The Duke of Mulset:
Frank Duncan
The Duchess of Mulset:
Diana Maddox
The Rector of Mull Extrinseca:
Deryck Guyler
Nancy Shewin:
Dorothy Primrose
A few of her sons - Owen:
Denis Quilley
A few of her sons - Brian:
Wilfrid Downing
A few of her sons - George:
M. Westbury
A few of her sons - Humphrey:
D. Maddox
Miss Welbeck, a headmistress:
Vivienne Chatterton
Harold Reith, a librettist:
Frank Duncan
R. Egerton Bunningfield, A.R.A.:
Norman Shelley
Roger Cloud, a male composer:
Deryck Guyler
Source: Radio Times

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