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CHILDREN'S HOUR

on BBC Home Service Basic

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For Older Children
Pauline Letts and Timothy Bateson in ' Great Expectations ' by Charles Dickens
Adapted as a serial play in seven parts by H. Oldfield Box
2 — 'In which Pip visits a Strange House'
Production by Josephine Plummer
' You will have realised from what I have told you that, but for dear Joe, my sister's husband, my childhood years would have been wretched indeed. One evening-some time after that startling adventure with the escaped convicts-Joe and I were alone in the Forge cottage, and I sat in the chimney-corner, my slate on my knee, expending great efforts on the production of a letter.....*

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
H. Oldfield Box
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Pip,as a man:
Timothy Bateson
Pip,as a boy:
Jean England
Joe Gargery:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Joe Gargery:
Patience Collier
Uncle Pumblechook:
Oliver Burt
Estella:
Denise Bryer
Miss Havisham:
Pauline Letts
Mr Wopsle:
Alexander Archdale
Mr Jaggers:
Peter Bull
Camilla Pocket:
Gladys Spencer
Sarah Pocket:
Joan Ireland
Stranger:
Philip Cunningham

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