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Know It Backwards

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A personal tale of murder and mystery, devised by Ernest Dudley and Michael North
With lyrics by Gordon Crier
The Cast includes:
Moore Raymond, Stephen Jack, Betty Hardy, Horace Percival, Helen Clare, Jack Train, Hugh Morton, Bobbie Comber
Music and production by Michael North

Here is a story unfolding backwards. It opens with a murder. Jimmy Grant, arriving for a week-end with his friend, Warren Hewitt, finds him dead, with a gramophone record of a song Jimmy has written, still mysteriously playing in the room. Then back to Colombo, to a ball there, where Jimmy writes the lyric to the tune being played by the dance band. Hewitt is present, and also Clare Bennett with a silent stranger. In further flash-backs we learn who the stranger is and the part. he plays. And so back to the very end, which is the very beginning, when we see the murderer arrested.

The ingenious idea and form of this play comes from Michael North, who has accompanied Davy Burnaby in many an entertaining programme on the air.

Contributors

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Ernest Dudley
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Michael North
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Moore Raymond
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Stephen Jack
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Betty Hardy
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Horace Percival
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Helen Clare
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Jack Train
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Hugh Morton
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Bobbie Comber
Production By:
Michael North
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Jimmy Grant
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Warren Hewitt
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Clare Bennett
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Michael North
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Davy Burnaby

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