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Fame is the Spur

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE with and 2: Thrown to the Wolves
Directed by TREVOR HILL
(BBC Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Spring
Unknown:
Ken Whitmore
Directed By:
Trevor Hill
HAMER SHAWCROSS:
Ian McKellen
Ann Artingstall:
June Barry
Tom Hannaway:
Geoffrey Wheeler
John Hamer, as a boy:
Gary Carp
George Artingstall, bookseller:
George Hagan
Polly Burnsall, the widow:
Romy Baskerville
Hawley, Ann's father:
Graham Tennant
Lillian Artingstall, her mother:
Elizabeth Kelly
Hilda, the maid:
Lesley Nicol
Arnold Ryerson, now a young man:
Andrew Jackson
Pen Muff:
Vida Paterson
Gordon Stansfield:
Lan Flintoff
Ellen, Hamer's mother:
Rosaue Williams
Richardson, the agent:
Randal Herley
Ezra Crompton:
Jimmy Braddock
Source: Radio Times

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