Well, He Would, Wouldn't He?

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Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Lyndsey Marshal

Stephen Marzella

Ewan Bailey

Adrian Schiller

Alex Dower

Anthony Courier

Charlotte Williams

Kate McAll

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Mandy Rice-Davies looks back to being caught up in the sensational trial of Stephen Ward.

Mandy Rice-Davies looks back to being caught up aged 18 in the sensational trial of Stephen Ward. With Aimee-Ffion Edwards.

In 1963, at the tender age of 18, Mandy Rice-Davies found herself at the centre of one of the most sensational scandals of the 20th century. 

She was a witness in the trial of Stephen Ward who was charged with living off the earnings of prostitutes. At the age of 16 Mandy had run away to London and become a dancer at Murray's Club in the West End, where she'd met Christine Keeler and society osteopath, Stephen. 

Soon she was mixing with London's elite and living as Peter Rachman's mistress. But when there was a shooting incident at Stephen's flat, and news broke of Christine's secret affair with Government Minister John Profumo, events began to spiral out of control. 

Fifty years later, Mandy looks back at those events and the impact they've had on her life.


Mandy (Younger) …. Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Christine Keeler …. Lindsey Marshall
'Pops' Murray .... Stephen Marzella
Johnny Edgecombe .… Anthony Courier
Eugene Ivanov …. Alex Dower
Lord Astor …. Adrian Schiller
Stephen Ward / Griffiths Jones / Peter Rachman …. Ewan Bailey 


Written by Charlotte Williams. 

Contributor: Mandy Rice-Davies

Director: Kate McAll

A BBC/Cymru Wales production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

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