No Thoroughfare

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Hidden Treasures: Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins - No Thoroughfare

Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins - No Thoroughfare

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1835: Two babies at a Foundling Hospital get the same name with disastrous consequences

4 Extra Debut. In 1835, two babies at London’s Foundling Hospital are given the same name with disastrous consequences. Stars John Justin.

‘As I strolled past the Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury the other day I thought of the many babes who had lain in the basket outside the Hospital's gate: and of the many footsteps that had hurried away from that spot, leaving a small life behind them. 

Of one set of footsteps in particular, and the strange story with its mystery and its terror, which began in 1835, on a chill November night....'

Two babies at London’s Foundling Hospital are given the same name with disastrous consequences. 

Written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins for the London stage in 1867.

Starring John Justin and Gabriel Woolf.  

Dramatised by Mollie Hardwick.

George Vendale .... John Justin 
Jules Obenreizer .... Gabriel Woolf
Marguerite Obenreizer .... Marika Mann
Walter Wilding .... Lewis Stringer
Mr Bintrey .... Patrick Barr   
The Lady .... Nicolette Bernard
Sally Goldstraw .... Molly Rankin
Joey Ladle .... Tom Bowman
Jarvis/1st house agent .... Alan Haines
Madame Dor .... Dorothy Black
Morris/2nd house agent .... Garard Green
Maitre Voigt .... Arthur Ridley
Treasurer/Bank clerk .... Kevin Flood

Producer: Hugh Stewart

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in July 1964.

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