Noel Coward This Happy Breed

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Fifty Years On: This Happy Breed  First broadcast: Sat 2nd Sep 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Noel Coward's play covers a 20-year period from June 1919, when the Gibbons family moved into their new home near London’s Clapham Common, to when they moved out in June 1939. Frank Gibbons …. John Moffatt Ethel …. Rosemary Leach Mrs Flint …. Doris Hare Queenie …. Alice Arnold Bob …. Robert Lang Sylvia …. Anna Cropper Billy …. Michael Maloney Vi …. Julia Swift Phyllis …. Elizabeth Mansfield Reg …. John McAndrew Sam …. Simon Treves Written in 1939, This Happy Breed was not staged until 1942. It was adapted as a film in 1944 directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson and John Mills. Director: Glyn Dearman

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.