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Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith
Adapted and Directed by Glyn Dearman
Piano played by Terence Allbright
BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Night Theatre - 04/05/1996
Length 90mins
A Comedy first performed in 1938

Plot[]

Set in 1938 four generations arrive to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, the Family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor really wish to.

Cast[]

  • Charles................Michael Denison
  • Dora...................Dulcie Gray
  • Fenny..................Charlotte Attenborough
  • Nicholas...............Nicholas Getz
  • Cythia.................Penny Downey
  • Bell...................Mary Wimbush
  • Hilda..................Joanna David
  • Margery................Annette Badland
  • Edna...................Francis Jeater
  • Laurel.................Trevor McDowell
  • Hugh...................Joshua Taub
  • Kenneth................Michael Tudor Barnes
  • Bill...................Mark Buroughs
  • Scrap..................Sarah Jane Derek
  • Flounsy................Bernadette Windsor
  • Gertrude...............Becky Hindley
  • Nanny..................Dora Brian
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