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SYBIL THORNDIKE FESTIVAL

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Dame Sybil stars in some of her favourite plays
The Potting Shed by Graham Greene adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Robert Harris
' ... The pottinK shed? Something awful happened there once.'
The characters:
The action of the play takes place in the Callifers' house, 'Wild Grove.' in what was once the country; in James Callifer 's lodgings in Nottingham; and in Fr. Callifer's presbytery somewhere in East Angiia.
Produced by JOHN POWELL
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Radio By:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Unknown:
James Callifer
Produced By:
John Powell
Mrs Mary Callifer, wife of H C Callifer:
Sybil Thorndine
John Callifer, her eldest son:
John Justin
Anne Callifer, John's daughter:
Chrys Salt
James Callifer, brother of John:
Robert Harris
Sara Callifer, James's former wife:
Jill Balcon
Father William Califer, uncle of John and James:
Henry Stamper
Dr. Frederick Baston, an old friend of the family and fellow-worker of H C Callifer:
Ronald Herdman
Dr Kreuzer, James's doctor:
Harold Kasket
Corner, James's fellow-lodger:
Brian Hewlett
Mrs Potter, widow of the Callifers' gardener:
Marjorie Forsyth
Miss Connolly, housekeeper to Fr. Callifer:
Anna Burden
Source: Radio Times

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