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SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE

on BBC Home Service Basic

To mark her fifty years in the theatre
AUDREY CAMERON produces Letter from the General by Maurice McLoughlin adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
The Reverend Mother and the nuns of a small mission station in an eastern country expect to be asked to leave by the Communist General in command. Sister Mag. dalen. who taught him as a small boy, has written to him ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Chinese soldiers played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Repeated on Monday at 3.15 See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Cameron
Unknown:
Maurice McLoughlin
Unknown:
Cynthia Pughe
Sister Lucy:
Jean Taylor-Smith
Sister Henry:
Marjorie Westbury
Sister Bridget:
Sheila Manahan
Reverend Mother:
Joan Matheson
Sister Magdalen:
Mary O'Farrell
Arthur Stilton, the British Consul:
Frank Duncan
Ruth Stilton, his wife:
Mary Wimbush
Captain Lee (in the Communist Army):
David March
Father Schiller:
Austin Trevor

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