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on BBC Home Service Basic

Sybil Thorndike Festival
Dame Sybil stars in some of her favourite plays The Distaff Side by John van Druten adapted by RAYMOND RAIKES with Lydia Sherwood , Jane Wenham Crizelda Hervey and Mary O'Farrell
When you have tidied all things for the night.
And while your thoughts are fading to their sleep,
You'll pause a moment in the late firelight,
Toosorrowfultoweep.
The large and gentle furniture has stood
In sympathetic silence all the day. With that old kindness of domestic wood:
Nevertheless the haunted room will say—
Someone must be away ...
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
John van Druten
Adapted By:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Lydia Sherwood
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Crizelda Hervey
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Mrs Venables:
Mary O'Farrell
Her daughters: Mrs Millward (Evie):
Sybil Thorndike
Her daughters:Mrs Frobisher (Liz):
Lydia Sherwood
Her daughters:Mrs Fletcher (Nellie):
Grizelda Hervey
Evie's children:Alex:
Jane Wenham
Evie's children:Roland:
Leroy Lingwood
Christopher Venables:
Victor Lucas
Toby Chegwidden:
Timothy Harley
Gilbert Baize (Gillie):
Ronald Baddiley
Charles Hubbard:
Alexander John
Rose:
Barbara Mitchell

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