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Nom-De-Plume: No. 14: The Man With a Hundred Hands

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by Robert Furnival.
A series of half-hour plays about famous men and women who were known to the world by names other than their own.
[Starring] Hubert Gregg
The action takes place in London in 1857.
The name by which the principal character is commonly known will be revealed only towards the end of the story.
(Nom-de-Plume is based on a series by Hector and Dorothy Crawford)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Furnival
Music composed by:
Antony Hopkins
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Clarinet played by:
Gervase de Peyer
Designer:
Gordon Roland
Richard Roe:
Peter Copley
James Saward:
Hubert Gregg
The girl:
Shane Cordell
Henry Atwell:
Michael Balfour
Slippery Saunders:
William Fox
John Doe:
Edward Wade
Police Inspector Sharp:
William Mervyn
Police Sgt. Keen:
Brian Wilde
The dupe:
Richard Bebb
Waiter:
Bart Allison
Other parts played by:
Jeffrey Gardiner
Other parts played by:
Charles Hersey
Other parts played by:
Ian Thompson
Other parts played by:
Violet Parry

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