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Theatre 625: Sword of Honour: Part 3: Unconditional Surrender

on BBC Two England

by Evelyn Waugh
Adapted for television in three parts by Giles Cooper
Starring Edward Woodward as Guy Crouchback
and Vivian Pickles, Freddie Jones, Sarah Lawson, James Villiers, Basil Dignam, Paul Hardwick, Kenneth Fortescue

At the end of last week's story, Guy's unit arrived in Crete at the moment when the British Forces were collapsing. In the ensuing chaos of retreat, he barely escaped with his life. This week - in the last story in the trilogy - a new personnel computer selects Guy for parachute training, and he soon finds himself fighting in Yugoslavia with the partisans...
(Paul Hardwick is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Adapted for television by:
Giles Cooper
Designer:
John Wood
Producer:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Donald McWhinnie
Guy Crouchback:
Edward Woodward
Cape:
John Martin
Mr. Crouchback:
Donald Layne-Smith
Uncle Peregrine:
Basil Dignam
Padheld:
Edward Bishop
Tommy Blackhouse:
Trader Faulkner
Ian Kilbannock:
James Villiers
Arthur Box-Bender:
Anthony Roye
Elderberry:
Geoffrey Wincott
Everard Spruce:
Noel Davis
Sir Ralph Brompton:
Geoffrey Dunn
Coney:
Sheila Conner
Ludovic:
Freddie Jones
Kerslie:
Sarah Lawson
Virginia:
Vivian Pickles
Susie:
Hugh Walters
R.A.F. Sergeant:
Patrick Conner
Oates:
George Waring
Frank de Souza:
Kenneth Fortescue
Gilpin:
Malcolm Gerard
Fremantle:
Nicholas Courtney
Hospital orderly:
Peter Hutton
Cattermole:
Denys Hawthorne
Priest:
Rolf Lefebvre
Bakic:
Maurice Podbrey
Madame Kanyi:
Imogen Hassall
Sergeant:
Will Stampe
Angela Box-Bender:
Nicolette Bernard
Domenica Plessington:
Caroline Hunt
Ritchie-Hook:
Paul Hardwick
General Speit:
Robert MacLeod

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