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A new radio comedy by E. Eynon Evans

Contributors

Writer:
E. Eynon Evans
Production:
John Griffiths
Mr Fountainpen Phillips:
John Hugh Jones
Mr Pacifist Pritchard:
Evan Morgan
Jenny Moses:
Madge Jones
Adam Morlais:
Elwyn Williams
Ewart Roderick:
Dewi Williams
Ben Evans:
Eynon Evans
Eve Morlais:
Eirwen Davies
Bessie-the-Bont:
Dilys Davies
Percy Tomkins:
Emlyn James
Vincent Burt:
Aubrey Richards
Lloyd Moses:
Bruce Mayne
Watty Badham:
George David
Mrs Harris:
Lin Winn
Catherine Miles:
Margaret James
Ira Pugh:
D L Davies
Maria Hopkins:
Sally Havard

and introduces
Variety Playhouse Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conducted by Vic Oliver
Variety Playhouse
Pocket Theatre starring Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert with Cecile Chevreau
Written by Jack Hulbert
To sing for you: Rowland Jones
Gloria Lane
To make you laugh:
Norman Vaughan
The Western Brothers
To play for you: Harold Jackson
Incidental music by Philip Martell
Continuity by Carey Edwards
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston

Contributors

Leader:
John Jezard
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
Cecile Chevreau
Written By:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
Norman Vaughan
Unknown:
Harold Jackson
Music By:
Philip Martell
Produced By:
Alastair Scott-Johnston

by Nancy Mitford
Her first novel dramatised for broadcasting by Lance Sieveking
Pianist, Josephine Lee
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Mitford
Pianist:
Josephine Lee
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Paul Fotheringay, an inexperienced young author:
Terence Longdon
The Hon Marcella Bracket, nominally engaged to Paul .:
Tobi Weinberg
Walter Monteath, a social sponge:
John Humphry
Amabelle Fortescue, an entertaining widow:
Sylvia Coleridge
Lady Bobbin, M F H , j p a ' horsey widow:
Fabia Drake '
Philadelphia, her daughter, aged 19:
Hilary Tindall
Bobby (Sir Roderick Bobbin, Bt ) herson, aged 18:
Charles Hodgson
Sally Monteath, Walter's wife:
Jane Hardie
Major Stanworth, a sporting widower:
Keith Williams
Smithers, a groom:
Derek Smith
Michael (Marquess of Downacre), inlove with Amabelle:
John Rye
Duchess of St Neots, a scandalous peeress:
Janet Burnell
Heloise Potts, her daughter by her fourth marriage.:
Jacqueline Forster
Mr Wainscote, a young gentleman:
Hugh Dickson
Mr Maydew another young gentle man:
John Scott

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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