Charles Dickens Dombey and Son
SANWAL
For Older Listeners ' Dombey and Son' BBC Home Service Sun 18th Oct 1959, 17:20 on BBC Home Service Basic By Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 1 — ' In which Mr. Dombey's dearest wish is fulfilled' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Mrs Dombey: Dera Cooper Walter Gay: Martin Starkie Susan Nipper: Norma Griffin Solomon Gills: Ivan Samson Polly Toodle (Richards): Elizabeth Bradley Mrs Chick: Mary O'Farrell Old Woman: Phoebe Hodgson CHILDREN'S HOUR BBC Home Service Sun 25th Oct 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 For Older Listeners 'Dombey and Son' by Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 2-' Captain Cuttle to the rescue ' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Walter Gay: Martin Starkie Paul Dombey: Marjorie Westbury Solomon Gills: Ivan Samson Mrs Pipchin: Vivienne Chatterton Mrs Chick: Mary O'Farrell Brogley: Roger Grainger CHILDREN'S HOUR Sun 1st Nov 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 ' Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 3—' Doctor Blimber's Establishment ' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Walter Gay: Martin Starkie Carker: Paul Hansard Mr Toots: Robert Grant Paul Dombey: Marjorie Westbury Susan Nipper: Norma Griffin Mrs Pipchin: Vivienne Chatterton Doctor Blimber: Lionel Marson Miss Blimber: Hilda Schroder CHILDREN'S HOUR Sun 8th Nov 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 For Older Listeners ' Dombey and Son * by Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 4 — ' The " Midshipman " Receives Company ' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carieton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Walter Gay: Martin Starkie Carker: Paul Hansard Mr Toots: Robert Grant Susan Nipper: Norma Griffin Solomon Gills: Ivan Samson Footman: Roger Grainger CHILDREN'S HOUR Sun 15th Nov 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 For Older Listeners ' Dombey and Son * by Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 5—' Edith ' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Carker: Paul Hansard Mr Toots: Robert Grant Edith Dombey: Elizabeth London Susan Nipper: Norma Griffln Mrs Skewton: Betty Hardy Footman: Roger Grainger CHILDREN'S HOUR Sun 22nd Nov 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 For Older Listeners ' Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 6—' Miss Nipper Speaks Out ' Produced by Claire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Carker: Paul Hansard Mr Toots: Robert Grant Edith Dombey: Elizabeth London Susan Nipper: Norma Griffin Mrs Pipchin: Vivienne Chatterton Mrs Skewton: Betty Hardy CHILDREN'S HOUR Sun 29th Nov 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 ' Dombey and Son ' by Charles Dickens Adapted for radio in eight parts by H. Oldfield Box 7—'The Flight of Florence' Produced by Ctaire Chovil Narrator: Carleton Hobbs Mr Dombey: Ralph Truman Florence Dombey: Judith Stott Captain Cuttle: Frederick Treves Carker: Paul Hansard Mr Toots: Robert Grant Edith Dombey: Elizabeth London Mrs Pipehin: Vivienne Chatterton Children's Hour Sun 6th Dec 1959, 17:00 on BBC Home Service Basic 5.20 'Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Adapted by H. Oldfield Box 8 - 'Conclusion' with Carleton Hobbs, Ralph Truman, Judith Stott, Frederick Treves Produced by Claire Chovil Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he’s planned to give, and then more.”
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.