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The Wind Cannot Read by RICHARD MASON
.adapted by MALCOLM HULKE with Martin Jarvis
Tsai Chin , Alan Wheatley and Anthony Valentine
A passionate love story set in India during the last war. Michael Quinn , an RAF officer, falls in love with his Japanese language instructress: but their brief happiness is interrupted when he is sent to the Japanese front and captured. He vescapes - but on his return finds only' sadness and grief.
Woman radio announcer/
Nurse.JO MANNING WILSON
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS (First broadcast in 1971)

Contributors

Read By:
Richard Mason
Adapted By:
Malcolm Hulke
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Tsai Chin
Unknown:
Alan Wheatley
Unknown:
Anthony Valentine
Unknown:
Michael Quinn
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Peter:
Sean Barrett
Michael:
Martin Jarvis
Wing Cmdr/Major Fother:
Peter Tuddenham
Mervyn/Norris:
Nigel Lambert
Fenwick:
Anthony Valentine
Perry/Capt Manning:
John Pullen
Brigadier:
Alan Wheatley
Sabby:
Tsai Chin
Rosie:
Barbara Mitchell
Lamb/Japanese prisoner of war/Sgt Sakomitzu:
Andrew Sachs
Sikh:
David Spenser
Nakamura/Kono, the Japanese sentry:
Kristopher Kum

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