J B. Priestley Lost Empires Part 03

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3: Final CurtainL The glamour of the music halls begins to fade for Richard. Nick Ollanton: Tom Baker Old Richard: Bryan Pringle Young Richard: Richard Hollick Tommy Beamish: Steven Frost Julie Blane: Bridgit Forsyth Inspector Furness/Johnson: Russell Dixon Cissie Mapes: Deborah McAndrew Nancy: Kathryn Hunt Jennings: John Lloyd Allingham Barney: Mike Edmunds Sam: Freddie Davies Sun 2nd Oct 1994, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM Written in the mood of Angel Pavement, this imaginative novel is set in the years immediately before the First World War. In turns funny, sad, nostalgic, it is the story of young Richard Herncastle who travels the now vanished Music Halls (the 'Lost Empires') with his uncle, an illusionist. The core of the story is the young man's emotional awakening.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.