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A radio portrait of Ouida by Joanna Richardson
A hundred years ago, in October 1867, Under Two Flags established Ouida as the most popular novelist of her generation. Whether she was in her suite at the Langham Hotel, in her eleventh-century villa near Florence, or in her squalid rooms at Viareggio, her life was as extravagant and flamboyant as her fiction. with Nigel Anthony , David Brierley Alan Dudley , Haydn Jones Harold Kasket , Gudrun Ure tProduced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Robin Bailey is appearing in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' at the Saville Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
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Nigel Anthony
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David Brierley
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Alan Dudley
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Haydn Jones
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Harold Kasket
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Gudrun Ure
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Douglas Cleverdon
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Robin Bailey
Ouida:
Nancy Nevinson
Elizabeth Lee:
Betty Hardy
The Hon Bertie Cecil:
Julian Glover
Cigarette:
Janette Richer
Lady Paget:
Carol Marsh
Narrator:
Robin Bailey
Source: Radio Times

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