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Introduced by Olive Shapley.

Make the Best of Your Home
Gontran Goulden reports on the London exhibition 'New Homes from Old Houses'. Pictures on page 13

Story
Aileen Mills tells a story about Elizabeth Pentreath, a village dressmaker.

Music
Malinee Peris, a visitor from Ceylon, at the piano.

Contributors

Presenter:
Olive Shapley
Reporter (Making the Best of Your Home):
Gontran Goulden
Storyteller (Story):
Aileen Mills
Pianist (Music):
Malinee Peris
Producer:
Jacqueline Kennish

Adapted for television by Hilda Lewis from her book.
The action takes place at Windsor; in the woods near Cobham; at Reigate; at Lewes; and on Shoreham beach.
Time: 1395-1399
(to 17.40)

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Hilda Lewis
Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Isabella, grown up:
Glen Alyn
Madame de Coucy:
Margaret Gordon
Queen Isobelle:
Christine Edmonds
Isabella a girl:
Victoria Nolan
Gilles Cobham:
Patrick Horgan
Sir Geoffrey Cobham:
James Raglan
Hugh:
Douglas Haves
A horseman:
Peter Augustine
Bell:
Jacqueline Wall
Innkeeper:
Wensley Pithey
Rose:
Kara Aldridge
Cookboy:
Philip Clive
Leader of the search party:
Michael Collins
Other parts played by:
Ernest Borrow
Other parts played by:
Peter Burton
Other parts played by:
John Marshall
Other parts played by:
Isla Richardson
Other parts played by:
Virginia Shipton

A domestic comedy by Felicity Douglas.

The action of the play takes place in a house in St. John's Wood, London.
A special performance before an invited audience from the Strand Theatre, London (by arrangement with Ralph Birch)
See page 13

Contributors

Author:
Felicity Douglas
Director:
Joan Swinstead
Setting Designer:
Tom Lingwood
Presented for television by:
Alan Chivers
Tessa Hammond:
Josephine Griffin
Anne Hammond:
Jessica Dunning
Grannie:
Mary Merrall
Laura Hammond:
Celia Johnson
Mrs. Dixon:
Josephine Wilson
John Hammond:
Gordon Whiting
Charles Hammond:
Ian Hunter
Stephen Hodgson:
Anthony Ireland

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