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Saturday-Night Theatre: Essington's Escapade

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A play by Malcolm Hazell, based on the novel "The Lunatic at Large Again" by J. Storer Clouston
with Peter Jeffrey as Essington

J.S. Clouston, who flourished as a popular writer of comedy novels before the First World War, could be regarded as a sort of forerunner of the Ealing Comedy. His particular brand of English zany compassion, featuring the not-so-dotty and very wealthy Essington (all but forgotten today), delighted an enormous public.
Time: the turn of the century
(From Bristol) (Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Malcolm Hazell
Based on the novel "The Lunatic at Large Again" by:
J. Storer Clouston
Producer:
Brian Miller
Prologue/Perry:
Nigel Anthony
Horsham:
John Ruddock
Mason:
Nigel Graham
Waiter:
Christopher Ashley
Beatrix:
Yvonne Antrorus
Ridley:
Robin Browne
Toothill:
Patrick Tull
Jenkinson:
John Moore
Walters:
John Samson
Porter:
Nigel Anthony
Pytcher-Crispin:
Esmond Rideout
Bowles:
John Smith
Davidson:
John Samson
Landlord:
Christopher Ashley
Lord Poppleham:
Graham Armitage
Meadows:
John Smith
Maid:
Christine Winter
[Actress]:
Eve Stuart
[Actress]:
Gillie Gratham
Source: Radio Times

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