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JB Priestley - Lost Empires: 1. Overtures and Beginners

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JB Priestley - Lost Empires

1. Overtures and Beginners

BBC Radio 4 Extra - JB Priestley - Lost Empires, 1. Overtures and Beginners

Richard Herncastle leaves his dead-end job to join his uncle's music hall act.

Richard Herncastle leaves his dead-end job to join his uncle's music hall act. Stars Tom Baker and Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies.

1913: Richard Herncastle leaves his dead-end job to join his Uncle Nick's act in the vulgar world of music halls to experience the glamour, jealousies and romances backstage... 

Published in 1965, JB Priestley's classic stars Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton.     

Dramatised in three parts by Bert Coules. 

Nick Ollanton    ......    Tom Baker 
Harry Burrard    ......    Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies 
Old Richard    ......    Bryan Pringle  
Young Richard    ......    Richard Hollick 
Tommy Beamish    ......    Steven Frost 
Julie Blane    ......    Brigit Forsyth 
Cissie Mapes    ......    Deborah McAndrew  
Nancy    ......    Kathryn Hunt 
Jenning    ......    Russell Dixon 
Johnson    ......    John Lloyd Fillingham
Barney    ......    Mike Edmunds  

Music: Chris Monks

Producer: Kate Rowland

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1994.

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JB Priestley's tale of the music hall. With Tom Baker and Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies

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