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The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 8: Melancholy Baby

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21/12/2016

Melancholy Baby

Series 8

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A lonely old man receives an unexpected visitor with a story which changes his life.

A heart-warming tale of two lives linked by events in Glasgow 90 years ago. Co-stars Geoffrey Palmer. From 2016.

A lonely old gentleman  receives an unexpected visitor and hears a story which changes his life.

Stanley Baxter is joined by Geoffrey Palmer, Penelope Wilton and Tracy Wiles to tell a heartwarming story of two babies from very different backgrounds whose lives become forever linked by events in Glasgow 90 years ago.

Written especially for Stanley Baxter by award winning TV writer Michael Chaplin.

Andrew ..... Stanley Baxter
Charles ..... Geoffrey Palmer
Mary ..... Tracy Wiles
Rosalind ..... Penelope Wilton

Director:  Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2016.

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