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The Velvet Glove: Happy in War

on BBC Two England

A series of six programmes

World War I's Nurse Cavell: Saint or 'Self-willed woman'? Glimpses of her life give a fresh insight into the great enigma: how this orthodox, upright Englishwoman came to be smuggling allied soldiers out of German-controlled Belgium.

Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Davies
Script editor:
Alan Seymour
Designer:
Oliver Bayldon
Producer:
Anne Head
Director:
James Ormerod
Edith Cavell:
Lynn Farleigh
Eddy:
Peter Egan
Otto Mayer:
Tony Beckley
Philippe Baucq:
James Kerry
Georges Gaston Quien:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Father:
Kevin Flood
Denise Donelly:
Editha Child
Florence:
Ceri Ransom
Lilian:
Gabrielle Shenton
Miss Luckes:
Dorothea Phillips
Nurse Meyer:
Jacqueline Tong
Committee lady:
Anna Korwin
Nurse de Vries:
Helen Cooper
Grace Jemmett:
Katherine Fahy
Sister Wilkins:
Thelma Whiteley
Colonel Boger:
Peter Cartwright
Sergeant Meachin:
Stafford Gordon
Louise Thuliez:
Elizabeth Romilly
German guard:
Peter Bale
Rev Stirling Gahan:
Brian Walton
Firing squad officer:
Willy Bowman

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