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Cromwell visits Firebasket Hall and witnesses an apparition.

Cromwell witnesses an apparition at Firebasket Hall. Civil War comedy with Joss Ackland and Denise Coffey. From October 1990.

Cromwell arrives, weeps and investigates as well he might since Father Francis has donned a night shirt and taken to the roof leads singing Ave Maria.

Mercy's disguise is revealed, Father Francis is perplexed in his hole, Tobias denigrates the vegetables, Arise Higgs and his platoon are billeted on Firebasket Hall and Gazebo has lethal orders.

Sue Limb's six-part comedy set during the English Civil War.  

Sir John Firebasket    ......    Joss Ackland
Lady Anne Firebasket    ......    Denise Coffey 
Tobias Thynne    ......    Clive Merrison  
Mercy, alias Melissa    ......    Miriam Margoyles 
Father Francis    ......    Nickolas Grace 
Gazebo Fogg    ......    Jack Klaff  
Captain Arise Higgs    ......    Alun Armstrong  
Posthumous    ......    Nicky Henson 
Counter Tenor    ......    Peter Hayward 
Cromwell    ......    Bert Parnaby 
Colonel Thundery    ......    Peter Howell

Music by Colin Sell.

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.

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Historical sitcom by Sue Limb, set in the times of Oliver Cromwell

Historical sitcom by Sue Limb, set in the times of Oliver Cromwell. With Joss Ackland and Miriam Margolyes

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