The Joke About Hilary Spite

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Thriller about a young woman with computing skills being drawn into a spy adventure.

Hilary goes through the door into the big wide world and gets picked up.  Stars Angela Pleasance and Nigel Anthony.

Hilary is a woman of exceptional talent.  

She's set to be discharged from hospital after seeing the psychiatrist.  

But then Hilary discovers she's the target of a shadowy group keen to use her computer talents...

Starring Angela Pleasance, Nigel Anthony and Margaret Wolfit.

Christopher Bidmead's six part thrilling spy adventure.  

Hilary    ......    Angela Pleasance 
Beresford    ......    Rolf Lefebvre 
Cannon    ......    Nigel Anthony 
Jean    ......    Hilda Kriseman 
Dr. Reece    ......    John Pullen 
Matron.    ......    Margaret Wolfit 
Dr. Wormald    ......    Malcolm Hayes 
Nurse    ......    Deborah Dallas 
Rick    ......    Andrew Sachs
Mortimer    ......    Dinsdale Landen 

Producer: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.

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A woman skilled in computing is drawn into a spy adventure. Stars Angela Pleasance.

A young woman skilled in computing is drawn into a spy adventure. Christopher Bidmead's thriller stars Angela Pleasance.

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