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JOHN OSBORNE SEASON The Entertainer

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last play in the season is a vintage production from the archives with Donald Wolfit as Archie Rice , a seedy third-rate comic in a tatty twice-nightly seaside show. Set in the 50s and first produced on stage in 1957, the tragedy of Archie Rice mirrors not only a dying music hall, but a dying era.
Adapted by Bennett Maxwell Music by John Addison
Producer H B Fortuin (First broadcast in 1964)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Wolfit
Unknown:
Archie Rice
Unknown:
Archie Rice
Adapted By:
Bennett Maxwell
Music By:
John Addison
Producer:
H B Fortuin
Archie Rice:
Donald Wolfit
Billy Rice, his father:
George Merritt
Jean Rice, his daughter:
Jane Wenham
Phoebe Rice, his wife:
Avis Bunnage
Frank Rice, his son:
Andrew Sachs
William Rice, Brother BiS:
Kenneth Hyde
GrahamDodd:
Gabriel Woolf
Source: Radio Times

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