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'A FAMILY AND A FORTUNE'

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by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author Characters in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column)
Production by Christopher Sykes
The action of the story takes place in Edgar Gaves-ton 's country house and its neighbourhood in rhe year 1901.
During the interval (9.40-9.65 app.):
Boccherini
String Quartet in D, Op. 6 No. 1 played by the New Italian Quartet on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Unknown:
Peter Mellors
Production By:
Christopher Sykes
Unknown:
Edgar Gaves-Ton
Oliver Seaton:
Alec Finter
Matilda Seaton, his daughter:
Beatrix Lehmann
Blanche Gaveaton, Matilda's sister:
Gladys Young
Miss Griffin:
Mary Morrell
Edgar Gaveston, Blanche's husband:
Norman Shelley
Dudley Gaveaton, his brother:
Ronald Simpson
Justine Gaveston:
Patience Collier
Aubrey Gaveston:
M Westbury
Mark Gaveston:
Harry Towb
Clement Gaveston:
Donald Gray
Jellamy, Edgar Gaveston's butler:
Eric Lugg
Maria Sloane:
Joan Hart
Narrator:
John Glen

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