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An adventure story.
Freely adapted for television by Macgregor Urquhart from the novel by Gladys Mitchell.
(Second performance of the programme televised last Tuesday afternoon)
(to 18.00)

Contributors

Author:
Gladys Mitchell
Adapted by:
Macgregor Urquhart
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Settings:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Glenda:
Jean Lester
Pam:
Penelope Bartley
Olive:
Pauline Tooth
Carol:
Jill Stuart
Mr. Adams:
Dennis Bowen
Sir Sedfim Cortez:
Anthony Cope
Miss Fortescue:
Marie Hopps
Mr. Castleton:
Robert Woolnough
Janson:
Robert Lankesheer
Glover:
Brenda Beith

A play specially written for television by Charles Terrot and Michael Barry.
The play is based on part of a new book by Charles Terrot, and the action takes place in an industrial town in England in the 1880s.

Acknowledgement is made to the Salvation Army's official historian, Col. Robert Sandall, for assistance in the preparation of the programme.
(Virginia McKenna appears by permission of Tennent Productions, Ltd.)
(Second performance on Thursday at 8 p.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Terrot
Writer/Producer:
Michael Barry
Settings:
Barry Learoyd
Captain Janine Mayhew (of the Salvation Army):
Virginia McKenna
Lieutenant Maud Harding (of the Salvation Army):
Daphne Slater
Captain Elijah Cadman (of the Salvation Army):
Lewis Casson
Lovelace Dashworth, a lion-tamer:
Leslie Dwyer
Admiral Wainwright:
Nicholas Hannen
Mrs Wainwright, his wife:
Marjorie Fielding
Lieutenant Michael Wainwright, R.N., his son:
Basil Appleby
Margaret Wainwright, his daughter:
Tilsa Page
Martie Craven, their old nurse:
Katie Johnson
A Police Sergeant:
Ivan Staff
Mrs Russell, a landlady:
Jessie Evans
Madam Barletti:
Gwen Nelson
Charlie, a stage-door keeper:
Joss Ambler
George:
Robert Brown
His wife:
Josephine Stuart
His child:
Peter Perry
Old soak:
Patrick Keogh
Old soak's wife:
Constance Fraser
A soldier:
Neil Wilson
A gin-shop master:
Stanley Lemin
Amos Dory, a farmer:
Edgar K. Bruce
John Pecker:
Terence Soall
The Mayor:
Reginald Dyson
The Bishop:
Arthur Wontner
The Vicar:
Stringer Davis
Mrs Robson:
Dorothy Darke
Sid Rolands:
Campbell Singer
Sammy-the-Runt:
Sam Kydd
Man of the Skeleton Army:
Diarmuid Kelly
Man of the Skeleton Army:
Howell Davies
Man of the Skeleton Army:
Walter Magnee
Man of the Skeleton Army:
Michael Raghan
Woman of the slums:
Gwen Nelson
Woman of the slums:
Barbara Hammond
Woman of the slums:
Joan Newell
Other parts played by:
Joyce Gregg
Other parts played by:
Ena Keogh
Other parts played by:
Margaret Wolfit
Other parts played by:
Sylvia Sutch
Other parts played by:
Geoffrey Adams
Other parts played by:
Robert Chetwyn
Other parts played by:
Brian Dodd
Other parts played by:
Cyril Saxon
Other parts played by:
Peter Whitbread
Other parts played by:
Jim Brady

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