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This Happy Breed (Classic Radio Theater Series)
Noel Coward
This Happy Breed (Classic Radio Theater Series)
Genre: Special Interest
 
John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939. — This Happy Breed opens in 1919, when the Gibbons...  more »

     
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All Artists: Noel Coward
Title: This Happy Breed (Classic Radio Theater Series)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: BBC Worldwide, Ltd.
Genre: Special Interest
Style: Radio Shows
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2

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John Moffatt and Rosemary Leach star in this BBC Radio 4 production of Noel Coward's patriotic play about the ups and downs of a working-class family between 1919 and 1939.

This Happy Breed opens in 1919, when the Gibbons family has just moved to their smart new home in the suburbs of South London. Against a background of social change and national upheaval spanning twenty years, the family celebrates their own triumphs and deals with their personal traumas.Coward's moving and humorous production, showing what life was like for a typical suburban family between the wars, was a huge hit and was adapted into a famous 1944 film starring John Mills and Celia Johnson. The cast of this audio production includes - - Frank: John Moffatt / Ethel: Rosemary Leach / Mrs. Flint: Doris Hare / Bob: Robert Lang / Sylvia: Anna Cropper / Billy: Michael Maloney / Queenie: Alice Arnold / Vi: Julia Swift / Sam: Simon Treves / Reg: John McAndrew / Phyllis: Elizabeth Mansfield

The Classic Radio Theatre range presents notable radio productions of much-loved plays by some of the most renowned playwrights and starring some of our finest actors.