Dear Octopus

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Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus

Drama: Relationships & Romance

28/11/2015

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus

Four generations prepare to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary. With Dulcie Gray.

Family tensions as four generations gather to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary. Stars Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.

1938: Charles and Dora Randolph are celebrating their Golden Wedding. 

A chance for four generations of the same family to be together – sparking all the problems and surprises that such a gathering inevitably causes...

Starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.  
 
Dodie Smith's play enjoyed a hugely successful run in the theatre before and during the early years of the Second World War.
 
Charles Randolph    ......    Michael Denison
Dora Randolph    ......    Dulcie Gray 
Belle    ......    Mary Wimbush  
Margery    ......    Annette Badland
Edna    ......    Frances Jeater
Nanny    ......    Dora Bryan
Cynthia    ......    Penny Downie
Laurel    ......    Trevyn McDowell
Hilda    ......    Joanna David
Nicholas    ......    Nicholas Gecks 
Fenny    ......    Charlotte Attenborough 
Hugh    ......    Joshua Towb 
Kenneth    ......    Michael Tudor Barnes
Bill    ......    Mark Burrows 
Scrap    ......    Sara-Jane Derrick
Flouncy    ......    Bernadette Windsor
Gertrude    ......    Becky Hindley

Producer: Glyn Dearman
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995

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