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A comedy-thriller in two parts.
Written for television by Godfrey Harrison.
The action takes place in the British Embassy in Nimbus, capital of Belgonia, a country in Middle Europe.
(Previously televised last Thursday)
(to 18.00)

Contributors

Writer:
Godfrey Harrison
Settings:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Production:
Rex Tucker
Peter Blythe:
Barry MacGregor
Paul Melvyn:
Michael Croudson
Lynch:
Edgar K. Bruce
Raymond Viles:
Ian Lubbock
Margot Francis:
Peggy Livesey
Lobner:
Geoffrey Barrie
Professor Mahler:
Hugo Schuster
Sir Alexander Blythe:
John Le Mesurier

A new play by Charles Lloyd-Jones.

There were halcyon days when brave adventurers from England fought the secret war against the Germans all over Europe side by side with Communist allies. Now that the Iron Curtain has descended, a young ex-Intelligence Officer is brought back to work and sent on a mission to Germany to make contact with a girl ex-agent (from behind the Iron Curtain) whom he once loved and whom he is to love again. You will perceive that this is really a Romeo and Juliet story, with England playing the part of the House of Montague and the Iron Curtain countries standing for the House of Capulet, and the young lovers finding themselves torn between love and the family feud. On this basis the play proceeds to spin its plots of missing documents, sinister agents, bodies smuggled out of the country, and other variegated excitements. Luckily, the ending is happier than Romeo and Juliet's. (Lionel Hale)
Second performance: Thursday at 8.15

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Lloyd-Jones
Settings:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Joy Harington
Colonel Waveney:
Maurice Colbourne
Dorothy, his secretary:
Dorothy Primrose
Martin Fulmer:
Terence Morgan
Tania Bulatov:
Elizabeth Sellers
Gregory Bulatov:
Thomas Heathcote
Alexander Lopakhin:
Sydney Tafler
His assistant - Peter:
Gerik Schjelderup
His assistant - Joseph:
William Abney
A shopgirl:
Tita Dane
Lotte, a dressmaker:
Maureen Pryor
British Consul:
Tristan Rawson
Vice-Consul:
Keith Lee
Others taking part:
Florence Viner
Others taking part:
Lyn Evans
Others taking part:
William Hyde
Others taking part:
Robert Rietty
Others taking part:
Arthur Gross

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