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Thomas Sharp

If working hours grow less and means of transport become quicker and cheaper, what sort of a country are people to have in which to spend their leisure? That is the question on which Thomas Sharp is going to let his imagination run in this talk, which is the second in this fortnightly series of speculations on the future.

Contributors

Presenter:
Thomas Sharp

A colliery play written for radio by Louis Hodgkiss and A. Raymond Walton.
Adapted for the Tyneside Dialect by George D. Salkeld.
Scene: Down a Tyneside Colliery

Contributors

Author:
Louis Hodgkiss
Author:
A. Raymond Walton
Adapter:
George D. Salkeld
Producer:
Cecil McGivern
Sam Barlow, the Deputy:
Norman Richley
Miners:
Andy Lee: Charles Wilkinson
Joe Lee:
Gillie Fenwick
Alec Walker:
Alf Simpson
Jack Bullock:
J. Strachan
Bill Smith:
Ewart Thompson
Graham, Colliery Manager:
Arch Fairbairn
Miner:
William Wilson
Miner:
Robert Craig

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