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Fnbia Drake Tcrence Longdon and Sylvia Coleridge in 'CHRISTMAS PUDDING*

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by Nancy Mitford
Her first novel dramatised for broadcasting by Lance Sieveking
Cast in approximate order:
Guests, servants, and others by the cast
Pianist, Josephine Lee
Produced by Archie Campbell
The action of Nancy Mitford's first novel takes place in London and during a country house party at Christmas in the 1930s. There is a naive and farcical charm about the zest with which these complicated socialites set about the business of living high life according to the code of the time.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Mitford
Broadcasting By:
Lance Sieveking
Pianist:
Josephine Lee
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Paul Fotheringay, an inexperienced young author:
Terence Longdon
The Hon Marcella Bracket, nominally engaged to Paul:
Tobi Weinberg
Walter Monteath a social sponge:
John Humphry
Amabelle Fortescue, an entertaining widow:
Sylvia Coleridge
Lady Bobbin, M F H , j p a ' horsey widow:
Fabia Drake
Philadelphia, her daughter, aged 19:
Hilary Tindall
Bobby (Sir Roderick Bobbin Bt ) her son, aged 18:
Charles Hodgson
Sally Monteath, Walter's wife:
Jane Hardie
Major Stanworth, a sporting widower:
Keith Williams
Smithers, a groom:
Derek Smith
Michael (Marquess of Downacre). in love with Amabelle:
John Rye
Duchess of St Neots, a scandalous peeress:
Janet Burnell
Heloise Potts, aged 17; her daughter by her fourth marriage:
Jacqueline Forster
Mr Wainscote, a young gentleman:
Hugh Dickson
Mr Maydew, another young gentleman:
John Scott
Source: Radio Times

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