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Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy

Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield

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Anne Caulfield - Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield

A celebration of a classic music hall duo and their immortal gossipy characters.

A celebration of a classic music hall duo and their immortal gossipy characters. Starring Celia Imrie and Susie Blake. 

Celia Imrie and Susie Blake star in Annie Caulfield's imaginative celebration of the classic music hall duo, Elsie and Doris Waters, and their immortal gossipy characters Gert and Daisy. 

Larking about in a recording studio, Elsie and Doris created the ebullient Cockneys, who were to take them away from the East End and into a world they'd only ever dreamed about.

Doris Walters .... Celia Imrie 
Elsie Walters .... Susie Blake 
Gert .... Tilly Vosburgh 
Daisy .... Tessa Peake-Jones 
Older Elsie .... Ann Beach 
Older Doris .... Barbara Atkinson 
Sam .... David Bradley 
Young Sam .... Chris Wright 
Mother .... Patience Tomlinson 
Father .... Geoffrey Whitehead 
Jack Warner .... Stephen Critchlow 
Young Jack .... Guy Edwards 
Lord Woolton .... David Timson 
Mary .... Jill Graham 
Kenneth .... Roger May 
Kenneth's Mother .... Zulema Dene 

Pianist: Colin Guthrie

Director:  Marion Nancarrow 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996

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