Terence Rattigan While The Sun Shines

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While the Sun Shines adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe Terence Rattigan Festival Wartime brings together strange bedfellows, not least in a Mayfair flat ... Horton: Lockwood West The Earl of Harpenden: Ronald Lewis Lieutenant Mulvaney: Warren Stanhope Lady Elizabeth Randall: Kate Coleridge The Duke of Ayr and Stirling: Peter Pratt Lieutenant Colbert: Philippe Monnet Mabel Crum: Margaret Wolfit While the Sun Shines is a comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan which was first staged in 1943. It was a popular success, running for 1,154 performances. Airman Lee Hanniker, U S A F: David March Colonel Harry Cavall, U S A F: Alan Tilvern Frenchy Richards: Belle Chrystall Willy Mason: Ronald Baddiley A well-constructed comedy of froth - with some coded hints of the lead man's sexual ambivalence. Set on the day before the wedding of a very wealthy earl to an impoverished duke's daughter, complications arise when 2 officers, French and American lieutenants, both fall in love with the fiancée. Throw in Mabel, a goodtime girl, a superior butler and the impecunious duke, Rattigan returns to his themes of English reticence and diffidence, as well as impending social change. Goodreads SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE Sat 24th May 1969, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM Produced By: Archie Campbell

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.