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The Afternoon Play: Christmas Holiday

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Somerset Maugham, dramatised by Jeffrey Segal
with Peter Rumney as Charley Mason
Elizabeth Lindsay as Lydia Berger
Anthony Daniels as Simon Fenimore.

'By God, what a time I am going to have,' thinks Charley when at Christmas 1938 he goes to Paris to visit his old schoolfriend Simon. As ignorant of the storm clouds lowering over Europe as he is of any world outside his own comfortable, cultured middle-class English background, Charley does not have quite the Christmas that he expected.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Somerset Maugham
Dramatist:
Jeffrey Segal
Pianist:
Mary Nash
Director:
Graham Gauld
Charley Mason:
Peter Rumney
Lydia Berger:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Simon Fenimore:
Anthony Daniels
Venetia Mason:
Monica Grey
Leslie Mason:
Jeffrey Segal
Patsy Mason:
Jenny Funnell
Mlle Ernestine:
Carole Boyd
Mme Berger:
Mary Wimbush
Robert Berger:
George Parsons
Hotel manager:
Richard Durden
Detective:
David Goodland
Source: Radio Times

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