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The Memory Man Forgets

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Episode 2: The Memory Man Forgets

Two Pipe Problem 2010

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Two Pipe Problem 2010, The Memory Man Forgets

After a trip home, The Old Beeches' memory man returns with no memory.

By Michael Chaplin. After a trip home, The Old Beeches' memory man returns with no memory. Resident sleuths William and Sandy take him back to Yorkshire to find it.

Written by Michael Chaplin.

Billy Small (played by David Holt) is a rare talent; one of the few surviving "Memory Men" Music Hall variety acts who had total recall of a huge range of entertaining facts. Billy is 85, and after a trip home to his native Yorkshire, he returns to The Old Beeches totally devoid of any memory of who he is or of any of the amazing facts he used to be so proud to display.

Our resident sleuths William and Sandy fancy a mini break away from the Home, and take Billy back to Little Fell, the old mining town where he grew up. There they meet his daughter and his granddaughter, but discover that Billy not only alienated the whole mining community during the last miners' strike by supporting his pitman son in returning to work, but appears now to have lost the love and support of his daughter. Can William and Sandy solve the problem?

Cast
William Parnes ..... Richard Briers                 
Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter                 
Billy Small ..... David Holt
Karen/Shelley ..... Teresa Gallagher                       
Railway Man/Harry ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Myra ..... Julia Ford
Rose ..... Anne Reid

Director: Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4: Two Pipe Problem 2010

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

By Michael Chaplin, featuring William and Sandy, residents of a thespians' retirement home

Drama by Michael Chaplin featuring William and Sandy, residents of The Old Beeches retirement home for elderly thespians and former co-stars of a 1960s TV series

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