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The Demon King

JB Priestley - The Demon King

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A washed-up actor misses a panto performance, but he’s got one hell of an understudy.

A washed-up actor misses a provincial panto performance, but he’s got one hell of an understudy. Stars Ian Wallace. From 1962.

The Boxing Day panto was going to be a flop - even for Bruddersford.

But then the Demon King came on… 

Ian Wallace stars in JB Priestley’s vintage comic drama. 

Adapted by Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick.

Kirk Ireton/Demon King …. Ian Wallace
Dulcie Farrar/Fairy Queen …. Marjorie Westbury
Alice/Principal Boy …. Sheila Grant
Johnny Wingfield …. George Merritt
Horace Rudd …. Frederick Treves
Lionel Sampson …. David Valla
Tom Burt …. Godfrey Kenton
Jonty Webster …. John Baddeley

With Andrew Irvine, Sian Davies, Dorrit Welles, Frank Partington, Barbara Mitchell and Timothy West

Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company 

Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 

Signature tune composed by Ron Grainer 

Music composed, arranged and conducted by Christopher Whelen

Producer: Charles Lefeaux 

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1962.

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