Marvellous Party

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Jon Wynne-Tyson: Marvellous Party

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Jon Wynne-Tyson - Marvellous Party

27/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jon Wynne-Tyson: Marvellous Party

1950s Las Vegas: sparks fly as Noel Coward meets his old close friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson.

1950s Las Vegas: sparks fly as Noel Coward meets his old close friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson. Stars Stanley Baxter and Dorothy Tutin.

1950s Las Vegas: sparks fly as Noel Coward gets a visit from his old close friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson. 

Stanley Baxter stars as Noel Coward and Dorothy Tutin as Esme Wynne-Tyson. 

A child actress in London’s West End, Esme became a close friend of the young Noel Coward. 

Here her son, Jon, imagines a meeting in the city of Las Vegas, between his mother and Coward in middle-age. 

Written and adapted for radio by Jon Wynne-Tyson.

Noel    ......    Stanley Baxter 
Esme    ......    Dorothy Tutin 
Gary    ......    Peter Whitman 
Waiter/Bellboy/Engineer    ......    David Holt

Director: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in May 1994.

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