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The Sunday Play: Nevil Shute Festival: The Chequer Board

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A play adapted by Stephen Grenfell from the novel by Nevil Shute
with Maurice Denham, Trader Faulkner, Nigel Anthony

'Tis all a chequer board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays.
And one by one back in the Closet lays

Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
(Broadcast on October 26, 1963)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Stephen Grenfell
Novel By:
Nevil Shute
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Trader Faulkner
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Hughes:
Austin Trevor
Hodder:
Bruce Condell
Jackie Turner:
Maurice Denham
Mollie Turner:
Margaret Wolfit
Al Kovacs:
Stephen Thorne
Jim Dakers:
Donald McKillop
Schultz:
John Baddeley
Frobisher:
Lewis Stringer
Colonel McCulloch:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Abe Lorimer:
Tommy Eytle
Bessie:
Eva Stuart
Dave Lesurier:
Nigel Anthony
Grace Trefusis:
Elizabeth Morgan
Philip Morgan:
Trader Faulkner
Mrs Morgan:
Molly Rankin
Chang:
John Ruddock
Ma Nay Htohn:
Delia Paton
Utt Nee:
Andrew Sachs
Thet Shay:
Timothy Harley
Mark Curtis:
Ronald Wilson

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