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Rum Bunch: Great Hillston

Great Hillston

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Rum Bunch, Great Hillston

Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield with special guest Jane Asher.

Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield perform a Jacobean revenge drama with special guest, Jane Asher. From 2017.

The Rum Bunch have been invited by the parishioners of the sleepy rural idyll of Great Hillston-Near-Water - birthplace of the Jacobean playwright Lydia Le Provost - to perform her most famous play, The Murderous Priest.

Justin has invited the showbiz legend and serious actress, Jane Asher, to take the leading role.

It’s been her lifetime ambition to perform the play's famous death scene.

Starring: 

Justin Edwards
Mel Giedroyc
Dave Mounfield

With Jane Asher.

House band:  Jason Hazeley and David Reed - The Penny Dreadfuls.

Producer:  Jim North

A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.

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Comedy: Sketch

Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield present sketches and musical comedy

Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc and Dave Mounfield, along with special guests, present sketches and musical comedy

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