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The Monday Play

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The Polyglots by WILLIAM GERHARDIE Adapted for radio by OLIVIA MANNING from the novel of the same title
A young Englishman in the course of travelling on a military mission to the Far East, discovers his cosmopolitan relatives and a dedication to romance.
Underneath the shamelessness and the farce, his themes are the great ones, of love, grief and death, of intimations of joy and of our imprisonment in the world of flesh and time.' (c. p. SNOW, Sunday Times)
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Gerhardie
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
George:
Geoffrey Beevers
Sylvia:
Madeline Smith
Aunt Teresa:
Mary Wimbush
Emmanuel:
James Thomason
Berthe:
Joan Matheson
Maj Beastly/Gustave:
Stephen Thorne
Head waiter/Dr Abelberg:
Nigel Graham
Sir Hugo/Uncle Lucy:
Don Troedson
Capt Negodyaev:
William Eedle
Mme Negodyaev:
Jane Knowles
Aunt Molly:
Anne Rosenfeld
Natasha:
Annabelle Lanyon
Hughie:
Judy Bennett

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