Peter Ling - Moonbeam and Mrs Pat

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Moonbeam and Mrs Pat

Drama: Biographical

Drama: Historical

23/02/1998

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Moonbeam and Mrs Pat

Celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell had one constant companion, her dog, Moonbeam.

The celebrated actress Mrs Patrick Campbell had one constant adored companion, her little dog Moonbeam. Stars Imelda Staunton.

The most constant and adored companion in the life of the celebrated stage actress Mrs Patrick Campbell was her little dog Moonbeam.
 
With war declared in 1939, 'Mrs Pat' travels with Dorothy, the daughter of her former secretary, on a train journey to Spain. 

Thus begins Dorothy's voyage of discovery as she learns of her marriages, love letters from George Bernard Shaw – and how she met her beloved Moonbeam.
 
Starring Imelda Staunton.   

Peter Ling's wet-nosed drama.  

 Mrs Patrick Campbell... Imelda Staunton
 Egypt... Sarah Badel
 Madame Lescaux... Zulema Dene
 Mrs Whittall... Jilly Bond
 Dorothy Whittall... Oona Beeson
 George Cornwallis West.... David Collings
 Harrington Bayley...John Hartley
 George Alexander..... Roger May

With: 

Mark Montgomerie
Geoffrey Whitehead
Patience Tomlinson
Ross Livingstone
Andrew Branch
Stephen Critchlow
Joshua Towb  

Peter Ling - with Hazel Adair - most famously created the long-running Midland-based ITV soap opera, Crossroads.
 
Mrs Patrick Campbell made a name for herself in a variety of diverse theatre roles: Mrs Darling in Peter Pan, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Raina in Arms And The Man.  (Born Beatrice Stella Tanner - she died aged 74 in 1940) 
 
Director: Enyd Williams
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4  in January 1996.

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