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'The Windmill'
The story of Conrad and Lysse based on an old Dutch tale
Written as a radio play by Lucia Turnbull
Music arranged by Ianthe Dalway with Reginald Gibbs and an orchestra conducted by Harold Gray Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Play By:
Lucia Turnbull
Arranged By:
Ianthe Dalway
Unknown:
Reginald Gibbs
Conducted By:
Harold Gray
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
The Burgomaster of Stavoren:
James Holliday
Lysse, his daughter:
June Spencer
Anna her maid:
Vera Ashe
The miller:
Geoffrey Lewis
His wife:
Joan Geary
Conrad, the boy:
D English
Conrad, the man:
Peter Wilde
Maid:
Ann Chatterley
Storyteller:
Arnold Peters

Sid Millward and his Nitwits
Jean Kennedy Percy Edwards
Charlie Clapham
Terry Harry Korris and Elva Sheridan Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth
Derek Roy
Introduced by Bill Gates
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Bill Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Sid Millward
Unknown:
Jean Kennedy
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Charlie Clapham
Unknown:
Terry Harry Korris
Unknown:
Elva Sheridan
Unknown:
Anne Ziegler
Unknown:
Derek Roy
Introduced By:
Bill Gates
Conducted By:
Paul Fenoulhet
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

by Alfred Sutro
Freely adapted for broadcasting by Howieson Culff
[Starring] Reginald Tate

Walter Gresham tends to be an excitable young man at any time, but at the moment he feels he has good cause to be so. Why should his fiancée, a charming and apparently level-headed girl called Dorothy Faringay, suddenly go off without warning to St. Moritz? And why, now that she has returned, should she be so enigmatic about the whole trip? Is it possible that over there she met somebody else? Poor Walter is quite flummoxed, and Dorothy's aunt, Mrs. Debney, is no help at all when it comes to explaining what happened at St. Moritz; she merely shrugs her shoulders and says that this is 1909 "when young ladies from the best families assault policemen". Walter decides that Dorothy's conduct is uite unreasonable, and also heartless, since her brother, Arnold, to whom she is devoted, happens to have got himself into a serious scrape. But had Walter reflected a little longer it might have occurred to him that it was precisely because of Arnold that Dorothy went to Switzerland, and this play by a neglected author shows to what lengths a sister may go in the attempt to save her brother's reputation.

Contributors

Writer:
Alfred Sutro
Adapter:
Howieson Culff
Producer:
Mary Hope Allen
Narrator:
Eric Lugg
Minnie:
Gladys Spencer
Mrs Debney:
Beatrix Lehmann
Walter Gresham:
Richard Hurndall
Dorothy Faringay:
Thelma Hughes
Arnold Faringay:
David Peel
Edward Thursfield:
Reginald Tate
Miss Closson:
Dorothy Smith
Sir Henry Killick:
Howieson Culff
Peter Holland:
Duncan McIntyre

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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