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Horace

BBC One
on BBC One London

by Roy Minton
with Barry Jackson as Horace and Stephen Tantum as Gordon

'Daft' Horace from the joke factory starts an alliance with Gordon, a schoolboy 20 years his junior.
When Gordon overhears his mother and her new boyfriend planning to leave him with her sister-in-law, he decides to run away and asks Horace to go with him...

"Never sentimentalised... sympathetic, touching The piece worked marvellously well." (Daily Telegraph)

Contributors

Writer:
Roy Minton
Producer:
Mark Shivas
Director:
Alan Clarke
Horace:
Barry Jackson
Gordon:
Stephen Tantum
Ivy Blackett:
Christine Hargreaves
Dick:
Talfryn Thomas
Mrs Radford:
Hazel Coppen
Sidney:
James Mellor
Miss Bowler:
Patricia Lawrence
Mr Scrimshaw:
Robert Hartley
Mr Frankel:
Howard Goorney
WhitSun:
Ken Parry
Brenda:
Caleigh Simmons
Mrs Beal:
Daphne Heard
Customer:
Eric Francis
Waitress:
Pamela Miles
Jeffries:
Jeffrey Gardiner
Source: Radio Times

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