The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
Robert Eddison, Arthur Lawrence, William Fox, Gladys Young, Monica Grey, Rosamund Greenwood, Elizabeth London, Frank Tickle and Cyril Shaps
First broadcast
Saturday 30th May 1953 at 9:15pm on BBC Home Service

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Three destitute men steal a schooner. They drink the cargo of champagne and try to steal a treasure trove of pearls from a local slave-owning trader.

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Libel! is a play written by Edward Wooll. It debuted on 2 April 1934 at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End, where it was directed by Leon M. Lion. Producer Gilbert Miller brought it to Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway in December 1935, with Otto Preminger directing.
Wooll, a barrister of the Inner Temple and Recorder of Carlisle, wrote the play under the pseudonym "Ward Dorane".

Wooll wrote a novelization in 1935, and the play was adapted as a movie in 1959.

Original Broadcast Date: 30.12.1950

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The Late Edwina Black By William Dinner & William Morum was broadcast on BBC Home Service on 7th January 1950
The action of the play passes in Amberwood House on the outskirts of a village in Hampshire. The time is October, 1895. On the day before Edwina Black’s funeral, Inspector Martin calls to interview her husband Gregory, her companion Elizabeth and her housekeeper, Ellen. Free from the dominating shadow of his wealthy wife, Gregory is now able to show his love for Elizabeth. But when it’s discovered that Edwina died from arsenic, Gregory and Elizabeth quarrel bitterly.
Is it a case of murder or a vindictive scheme to destroy Elizabeth and Gregory’s love?
Stephen Murray as Gregory Black
Catherine Lacey as Elizabeth Graham
Raymond Huntley as Henry Martin
Beatrice Varley as Ellen, a housekeeper
Produced by Raymond Raikes
Original Broadcast Date: 07.01.1950

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Sound is not 100% but this is due to the play that was recorded in 1945.
Scene: Glansarno, a small village in a remote Welsh countryside.
Time: a period of three years in the latter part of the 19th century.

Teacher Miss Moffat is determined to win local miners over to her English ways in this semi-autobiographical work by Emlyn Williams.

Cast - Miss Moffat: Gladys Young. Morgan Evans: Richard Burton. Welsh folk songs sung by boys from Aberdare County School.

Adapted for broadcasting by T Rowland Hughes. Produced by PH Burton.

First broadcast on Saturday Night Theatre - BBC Home Service 27th January 1945.

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Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 2nd Aug 1986, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Missing Persons by David Hopkins.

When Michael Brennan returns to England things seem to have changed. He feels he is being watched - then people go missing and the grip of fear tightens.
Directed by Peter King.

Michael Brennan: Shaun Prendergast
Sgt Major Baker: Gordon Reid
Major Morgan: Garard Green
Skilton: Francis Middleditch
John Gallagher: George Parsons
Clive Johnson: Tim Reynolds
Peter Brennan: Jonathan Tafler
Maureen Brennan: Avril Clark
Rosamund Morgan: Pauline Letts
Bryan Geer: Peter Howell
Smithson: Richard Durden
Abby: Alex Marshall
Arthur Benson: Edward de Souza
Police sergeant: Manning Wilson
TV announcer: Deborah Makepeace

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Death in Ecstasy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, the fourth to feature her series detective, Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. It was first published in 1936.
When lovely Cara Quayne drops to the floor dead after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn, when he is called upon to discover who poisoned this wealthy cult member.
A dramatisation by John Tidyman of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in September 1969, with Peter Howell as Alleyn and Gary Watson as Nigel Bathgate.

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bbc radio 4 drama thriller crime saturday night theatre
A BBC Radio comedy by Tom Wainwright.
Nobody seriously expects a politician to keep the promises he/she makes during an election campaign.
However, after Julian Quark is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, he reneges on every single campaign promise he made...which may not have been a very smart thing to do, because one day he wakes up to find that his right ear has mysteriously vanished! And that's just the start, because now every time he tells a lie another body part disappears!

Is it possible that there's some connection between these mysterious and continual disappearances of his body parts and his political dishonesty? If there is, he'd better find out soon and do something about it, because the more his own physical being keeps disappearing the less chance he has of stopping (let alone breaking) this curse ...

Julian Quark ... Toby Jones
Sarah ... Doon Mackichen
Marazion ... Michael Bertenshaw
Prickett ... Brian Protheroe
Tanya ... Adie Allen
Jeremy ... Nich Underwood
TV Reporter ... Nicola Ferguson
Prime Minister of Australia ... James Lailey
Aide ... Sam Rix

Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 17 March 2016

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1997 BBC Radio 4 dramatization on the Stephen King classic. Originally aired in six half-hour episodes. Adapted by Gregory Evans and starring John Sharian, Briony Glassco
Part 5 & 6

1997 BBC Radio 4 dramatization on the Stephen King classic. Originally aired in six half-hour episodes. Adapted by Gregory Evans and starring John Sharian, Briony Glassco
Part 3 & 4

1997 BBC Radio 4 dramatization on the Stephen King classic. Originally aired in six half-hour episodes. Adapted by Gregory Evans and starring John Sharian, Briony Glassco
Part 1 & 2

A BBC adventure serial in six parts by Christiopher Bidmead.

In 1970's England, Hilaey Spite is a young woman in a man's field: computer programming. Hilary is highly skilled at her job and exceptionally talented.

She's also about to be discharged from a psychiatric facility after being hospitalized.

Upon her discharge, she meets a gentleman who tells ehr that the the dead are living and the living dead. And then he asks her to do a "job" for him, and she soon discovers that she's become the target of a group that's keen to use her computer talents for illegal purposes... and the only man who may be able to help her is an agent who may not be what he seems

Hilary ... Angela Pleasance
Beresford ... Rolf Lefebrve
Cannon ... Nigel Anthony
Jean ... Hilda Kriseman
Dr. Reece ... John Pullen
Matron ... Margaret Wolfit
Dr. Wormald ... Malcolm Hayes
Nurse ... Deborah Dallas
Rick ... Andrew Sachs
Mortimer ... Dinsdale Landen
Le Noir ... Charles Hyatt
Williams ... Peter Tuddenham
Girl ... Jo Manning Wilson
Michael ... Brian Hewlett
Technician ... James Thompson
Fernberg ... Harry Francis
Policeman/Guard ... Brian Haines
Maximilian ... Harold Kasket
Esther ... Patricia Gallimore
Keredic/Waiter ... John Rye

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 01 June - 06 July 1970

Episode 1 00:00
Reception

Hilary is a woman of exceptional talent.

She's set to be discharged from hospital after seeing the psychiatrist.

But then Hilary discovers she's the target of a shadowy group keen to use her computer talents...

Episode 2 29:55
Pandora Close

Hilary meets a gentleman who tells her that the dead are living and the living dead.

Then - because of her exceptional talent - he asks her to do a job for him...

Episode 3 58:46
Zeus

Hilary meets an agent who is not what he seems, and together they climb a bridge to rob a computer.

Episode 4 1:27:10
The Proctor File

Hilary gets things taped, but has to take a jump to get back in the swim of things.

Episode 5 1:55:48
Universal General Hire

As the danger mounts, Hilary is forced to hang on for rescue from the sky.

Episode 6 2:25:25
The Cross of Light

Hilary is getting closer to the facts, but will she be able to face the truth?

Curlew in Autumn

A vintage thriller serial in six episodes by Edward Boyd
with David Ashton as Peter Calman

01 Bankrupt 00:00

A small town in Galloway, on the South-west coast of Scotland. A cottage mysteriously unchanged since 1941. A dead nurse. And lawyer Peter Caiman with £1 million in his bank account, and no idea how it got there.

Peter Calman: David Ashton
Jenny: Stella Forge
Magda: Vivienne Dixon Old Hansford:
Ian Stewart Douglas: Robert Paterson
Jock: John Shedden
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Anderson/McLeod: John Buick
Nurse Nicolson: Anne Cullen

02 Hit and Run 27:17

Nurse Nicolson lies dead in the mortuary. Suspicion lies on Peter Caiman. And someone is lying through their teeth.

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Anderson/mcLeod: John Buick
Douglas/Elphinstone: Robert Paterson
Magda: Vivienne Dixon
Old Hansford: Ian Stewart

03 The Cottage 52:02

A mysterious German patriarch, a model of a Junkers 88, another unexplained death - perhaps Caiman should have taken up jogging after all.

Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Old Hansford: Ian Stewart
Scholl: Brown Derby
Mary: Doreen Cameron
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Dr Webber: Sandy Neilson

04 The Hermit 1:15:52

Old Hansford has died. Tim Leighton has disappeared. Dr Webber has a suspicious suntan. Hardly the time, you would think, for Caiman to go poaching at Dungrennan Bay.
Peter Caiman: David Ashton

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Brill: Finlay Welsh
Scholl: Brown Derby
Dr Webber: Sandy Neilson

05 Dungrennan Bay 1:38:58

In which Caiman takes the Tinker's path to moonlit Dungrennan Bay - and gets singed by a fat dragon in a Welshman's cave.

Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher.
Walter Hansford: Ronald Aitken
Bullivant: Arthur Boland
Brill/Clerk: Finlay Welsh
Receptionist: Tamara Kennedy
Douglas: Robert Paterson

06 Back to the Cave 2:04:14

The Temple of Peace, the missing hermit, the dead nurse and the model Junkers 88 - it's all coming together. But the Fat Man is trying to make Peter Caiman fall apart.

Peter Caiman: David Ashton
Dunsmore: Gregor Fisher
Jenny: Stella Forge
Walter Hansford: Ronald Aitken
Scholl: Brown Derby
Chief Constable: John Buick
Constable Douglas: Robert Paterson
Bullivant: Arthur Boland
Leighton: Tom Criddle

Directed by: Patrick Rayner BBC Scotland
First broadcast:
From Sun 8th Apr 1984, 19:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

A six-part BBC adventure serial by Edward J. Mason, the co-creator of DICK BARTON SPECIAL AGENT and THE ARCHERS.

Jeweler and amateur detective David Conway and his fiancee Pat think that cheating husband Paul Farley is trying to make people believe his wife Red has gone insane, but soon find out things aren't what they seem as they get caught up in a thrilling adventure involving a plot to steal a new supposedly-bulletproof metal alloy and murder.

with: Ysanne Churchman, Arnold Peters, Anne Cullen, Bernard Rebel, Dudley Rolph, June Spencer, Gerik Schelderup, Peter Wilde, Chris Gittins, Harry Stubbs, Willkiam Avenall, Michael Ford and Eddie Robinson.

Broadcast on the BBC Midlands Home Service 26 October - 30 November 1954

Episode 1 00:00
Lady's Invitation

A jeweller attends a party and learns that his beautiful hostess is in danger.

Episode 2 29:05
Gold Elephant

Red Farley is still missing and so is Pat's birthday bracelet.

In spite of being warned off by his friend the inspector, David Conway and his fiancé Pat decide to do a little investigating themselves.

Episode 3 58:20
Seeing Red

The third instalment of a suspense serial by co-creator of Dick Barton and The Archers. David Conway and Pat Manners try to catch up with the mysterious Red Farley but she is good at giving people the slip. Finally they track her down at the circus where she says she suspects her husband Paul of trying to steal Krutz's secret formula for his alloy metal and that she fears for her life.

Episode 4 1:27:11
Cards on the Table

Following a murder at the circus, the race is still on for David and Pat to get to the bottom of the mystery about the secret new super metal.

Episode 5 1:55:55
Target Practice

Red Farley is still missing, David Conway has left his flat in the early hours with Kratz following a message from Johnny Johnson to meet him at the foundry works. David and Kratz then find out who is working for whom. Paul Farley and Hugo Norsten will stop at nothing to get their hands on the secret formula for Kratz alloy metal - and then they want to test it out - just to make sure.

Episode 6 2:24:01
Under Fire

Even Paul Farley is uneasy, as living targets are lined up to test the Krautz alloy metal. Can David and Pat outwit the villains as they get increasingly reckless under Johnny Johnson?

Concluding episode of suspense thriller in six-parts by the co-creator of Dick Barton and The Archers.

Starring Ysanne Churchman, Anne Cullen, Chris Gittins, Arnold Peters, Bernard Rebel, Eddie Robinson, Dudley Rolph, June Spencer, Peter Wilde and Harry Stubbs.

Written by Edward J Mason

Producer Philip Garston-Jones

First broadcast on the BBC Midland Home Service in November 1954.

Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 26th May 1984, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
One False Step by John Ashe

A simple enough beginning. Paul, the young son of separated parents, is to visit his father on holiday away from public school. But when the father is Pierre Jarnac, French multi-millionaire and defence aircraft manufacturer, the holiday turns out to have sinister implications....

Directed by Brian Miller BBC Bristol

Michael O’Brien: Terence Harvey

Barr: David Sinclair
Maulay: James Snell
Jarnac: David March
Tremaine: David Parth
Wendy: Emma Sutton
Paul: James Humphries
Junot: Mark Rolston
Galvi: Clive Panto
Briolle: William Hope
Hocking: Alan Coveney
Receptionist: Angela Barlow

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Alibi For A Judge by Henry Cecil and Felicity Douglas with Basil Dawson

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A BBC Radio adaptation by John Tydeman of the 1965 stage play by Henry Cecil and Felicity Douglas with Basil Dawson based on Cecil's novel of the same name published in 1960.

Mr. Justice Carstairs is a High Court judge...as well as a chronic worrier and extremely conscientious. In a recent case, he sentenced a man to ten years imprisonment; however, his conscience begins to prick him about the way in which he conducted the trial and that the alibi given by the defendant's wife may in fact be true.

Mr. Justice Carstairs is determined to do something about the case and takes the unprecedented step of trying to overrule his own judgement while encountering resistance from all sides. Matters get really complicated when, in trying to prove the man's innocence, he becomes convinced of his own guilt ...

Mr. Justice Gerald Carstairs ... Andrew Cruickshank
Lesley Burford ... Amanda Grinling
Thomas Empton, QC ... Aubrey Woods
William Burford ... Trader Faulkner
Mr. Hunt, Solicitor ... Jonathan Scott
Mr. Bell, Prosecution Counsel ... Peter Howell
Superintendent Neale ... Michael Shannon
Ernest Mott ... Clifford Norgate
Mr. Campbell ... Hector Ross
Mrs. Ross ... Carole Boyd
Joe ... Michael Burlington
Inspector Martin ... Anthony Smee

Adapted and Directed by John Tydeman

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 26 May 1974
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David Cregan - A Butler Did It
With Bernard Hepton Anna Massey.
Beneath his immaculate exterior Honeyman, the butler, is plotting the downfall of his master's house …
Director John Tydeman

Honeyman, the Butler:…..Bernard Hepton
Sir Desmond, a magnate:….Hugh Manning
Alfred, his son:….Ian Collier
Samantha, his daughter:….Anna Massey
Alistair, her husband:….Neville Jason
Paula, their daughter:….Melanie Nicholson
Daniel, her lover:….Simon Treves
Sean, her mother's lover:….Geoffrey Beevers
Harry, the butler's brother:….Roger Hammond
Cleric:….David King
BBC announcer:….Simon Milner

Drama Now: A Butler Did It
Tuesday 31st July 1990, 21:35 on BBC Radio 3

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Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 31st Jan 1976, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The Rose Garden by Nick McCarty

'I don't refuse to tell the story because of what will happen to other people. Not entirely. Not so much as because of my fear of what will happen to me ... I retain my control but the balance is a delicate one ... We are all afraid. You of loneliness and youth and I ... I am afraid of what is in my head.'
Producer Roger Pine BBC Birmingham

Tony Parker: Nigel Anthony
Jill: Heather Barrett
George: Jack Holloway
Bert: Alan Devereux
Bouchard: William Eedle
Lebrun: Brian Haines
Father Joseph: Geoffrey Matthews
Alan Bryant: Arnold Peters
Mary Bryant: Eileen Barry
Ella Bryant: Emily Richard

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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Bell
Sat 14th Aug 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM
In Vincent Maclnerney's Liverpudlian comedy thriller, James Ellis is Detective Inspector Crust on the trail of one of the bridge bells saved during the sinking of the Titanic. Tarrant, a psychotic criminal, is also determined to lay his hands on it.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Elizabeth: Teresa Gallagher
Tarrant: Eric Allan
Fr Kennedy: Peter Caffrey
Minty: Bill Monks
Mrs Moran: June Barrie
Dicky Bird: William Eedle
Eileen: Sue Jenkins
Gringod: Gerry Hinks
Mitz: Melinda Walker
Jim Rawson: Sion Probert
George: Derek Hicks
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Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 14th Jul 1973, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
The Fallow Land: the novel by H.E. Bates, adapted for radio by David H. Godfrey.

’It's always been the same-always has been and always will be. If you're not master of the land, the land will be master of you. Nothing's so sure as that.'
Producer: David H. Godfrey

Fairground attendant: William Eedli
Jess Mortimer: Geoffrey Matthews
Deborah: Denise Bryer
Mrs Arbuthnot: Joan Sanderson
Mr Mortimer: Charles Simon
Mrs Mortimer: Kathleen Helme
Alma Wolstenholm: Jane Knowles
David as child: Olwen Griffiths
Benjamin as child: Sandra Clark
Dr Starling: Peter Williams
Sophie Sharman: Gretta Gouriet David as man:
John Forrest Benjamin as man: David Valla
Mr Twelvetree: Brian Halnes
Mrs Twelvetree: Hilda Schroder
Anthea Twelvetree: Julie Hallam
Government Official: Anthony Hall
Ada: Sandra Clark

The Fallow Land was the author’s fourth novel, his first set in the English Midlands around about the time of the first World War. It is a sort of historical novel about a rural world which has long since disappeared, and is not written today. It was to some degree inspired by Bates’s childhood memories of his grandfather Lucas and it is said that it is a least partly the old man’s story. It concerns the struggle of three generations of a farming family in the Nene Valley –most notably the unfortunate Deborah Loveday. Deborah marries Jess Mortimer, who soon leaves her to embark on a life of dissipation, while she remains to work the farm with Mortimer’s old man, a task to which she devotes herself throuhgout the rest of her life with passion and courage, while bringing up troubled sons Benjamin and David. The novel was highly praised at the time of its publication, and the pity is that it is probably largely forgotten today, and it is unlikely to be in print. [goodreads]

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The Investigation of a Murder by ERIC SAWARD
The methods of police investigation in a murder case are believed to be well-known. Routine enquiry, occasional inspiration. leading to conviction or frustration. But what is the effect of modern police work on those only casually or coincidentally involved in the case? What is the impact, in particular, on the relatives of the suspect; the man believed, but not yet known, to have committed the crime?
Directed by ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Contributors
Unknown:
Eric Saward
Directed By:
Roger Pine
Det-Sgt Burgess:
Roger Hume
Det-Con Bailey:
Terry Molloy
Det-Supt Armstrong:
Geoffrey Matthews
Jenny:
Elizabeth Cassidy
Malcolm:
Sean Barrett
Mum:
Ysanne Churchman
Mrs Marsden:
Hilda Schroder
Mrs Meadows:
Peggy Ashby
Raymond:
Michael Irwin
Doctor:
Leonard Dixon
Charlie:
Earl Cameron
Len Woods:
Arnold Peters
Desk Sgt:
Ralph Lawton
Radio operator:
Hedli Niklaus
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In 1898, following a boiler explosion, a GWR driver and fireman succeeded in saving the lives of their passengers.

Martin Sorrell recreates the background to this story which acts
as a tribute to all railwaymen.

Narrators:……….Martin Jarvis, Joanna Myers.
Director:……….Martin Jenkins.
David Evans:………Peter Penry Jones
Atlwood:……..John Church
Edmund Mears:……..Nicholas Murchie
Ada Peart:……..Ann Windsor
John Hodges:…….Jonathan Tarer
Eiza Dean:……..Siriol Jenkins
Armstrong:…….John Webb

Who Sings The Hero?: 2: Never Mind, I Stopped My Train!
Wed 26th Aug 1992, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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The Monday Play: Tonic Water and Ice
Mon 10th Aug 1981, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Jane Beeson

Dick and Jan are seen by their friends as the couple who have everything - looks, money, the perfect marriage. However, Dick's unusually close relationship with his mother has become a serious threat to their happiness. During a long, hot summer weekend at his parents' country house by the sea, the tension becomes unbearable.
Director Cherry Cookson

Dick: -Michael Pennington
Jan: -Francesca Annis
Alice: -Avril Elgar
Julian: -Michael Cochrane
Sonia: -Phyllida Nash
Charles: -Noel Howlett
Dick as a child:m -Susan Sheridan

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Saturday Drama: To Catch a Thief
First broadcast: Sat 8th Jan 2011, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to radio. American John Robie is living quietly in the South of France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts begins on the Riviera, targetting rich Americans, the police immediately suspect he's returned to his old ways. To prove his innocence, and trap the real thief, Robie must resort to subterfuge. But his plans go awry when the daughter of one of the rich American tourists takes rather too close an interest in him - and his past.

John Robie:……Jeff Harding
Francie Stevens:……Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Mrs Stevens:…..Laura Brook
Paul:…..Alun Raglan
Bellini:…..Simon Armstrong
Danielle: Aurelie Amblard
French Extras:…..Martin Sorrell
Director:…….Sarah Davies

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