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Fame is the Spur

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The novel by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE and Rosalie Crutchley Lizzie Lightowlcr
8: Perish by the Sword Period 1923-1938
Theme music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Novel By:
Howard Spring
Unknown:
Ken Whitmore
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Lizzie Lightowlcr
Composed By:
Johnny Pearson
Directed By:
Trevor Hill
Hamer Shawcross:
Ian McKellen
Lady Lettice:
Helen Ryan
Pen Ryerson:
Vida Paterson
Alice, her daughter:
Valerie Georgeson
Charles Shawcross:
Richard Durden
Jimmy Newboult:
John Baldwin
Arnold Ryerson:
Andrew Jackson
Sir Thomas Hannaway:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Polly his wife:
Romy Baskerville
Reporter:
Peter Bell
Pendleton, the butler:
Rory Scase
Source: Radio Times

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