Noel Coward This Happy Breed - Kostenloses Hörbuch

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