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The Spanish Farm: Part 1: The Crime at Vanderlynden's

on BBC Two England

by R.H. Mottram.
Dramatised in four parts by Lennox Phillips.

The story of Madeleine and the Spanish Farm situated in French Flanders close to the Front in the First World War, and of some of the British troops billeted there. Madeleine is the heroine; but the only hero is the farm. For that will live, while its temporary occupants are dying - in disciplined, slaughtered thousands.

(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
R.H. Mottram
Dramatised by:
Lennox Phillips
Costumes:
Prue Handley
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Gerald Blake
Jerome:
Jack Woolgar
Armand:
William Victor
Madeleine:
Caroline Mortimer
Georges D'Archeville:
Carl Rigg
Baron D'Archeville:
Cyril Luckham
Berthe:
Eileen Way
Jock:
Roy Pattison
Col. Birchin:
Maurice Hedley
Capt. Dormer:
Bernard Hepton
Lieut. Skene:
Cavan Kendall
Lieut. Earnshaw:
Christopher Tranchell
Lieut. Smith:
George Tarry
Sergeant:
Desmond Cullum-Jones
Lieut. Mercadet:
Michael Godfrey
Lieut. Mansfield:
John Leeson
Lieut. Murdon:
Peter Hempson
Capt. Thomas:
Martyn Huntley
Victor:
Michael Cleave
Railway clerk:
Charles Leno
Cecile Blanquart:
Brigit Forsyth
Blanquart:
Roy Denton
Medical Sergeant:
Stanley McGeagh
Marie:
Elisabeth MacNaughton
Jerry:
James McManus
Maj. Stevenage:
James Locker

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