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Public interest has been aroused in Charles Dickens as a story-teller and social reformer by the recent filming of several of his novels. Colm Brogan , who holds that Dickens was the greatest novelist of his century, considers that he was a mere social protester rather than the social reformer his admirers claim him to be

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Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Colm Brogan

A dramatised account of Lord Cochrane's attempt to expose the Admiralty Court at Malta in 1811 Written for radio by J. E Taylor
Production by Maurice Brown
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Admiral Thomas Cochrane tenth Earl of Dundonald, was born in Lanarkshire in 1775. At the time of the Malta affair he was thirty-six. He was a great fighting seaman, a giant of a man whom men followed joyfully. He was crazily daring, but quarrelsome and fiercely Intolerant-a contrary man, but greatly admired and liked

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Radio By:
J. E Taylor
Production By:
Maurice Brown
Unknown:
Admiral Thomas Cochrane
Lord Cochrane:
Michael Hordern
Captain Wynne, R N:
Arthur Young
Judge Advocate:
Denys Blakelock
Judge:
Abraham Sofaer
Proctor Marshall:
Martin Benson
Hotelkeeper:
Martin Benson
Deputy Marshal:
Arthur Bush
Gaoler:
Anthony Holies
A Naval Officer:
John Cadell
The Governor:
Clifford Buckton
Clerk of the Court:
Frank Atkinson

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