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Martyn Read - The Folly
Sir Morton Makepeace's characters disrupt his play and threaten his new Folly. Rollicking comedy set in 1770 with Freddie Jones. From September 1991.
Somerset, 1770: Sir Morton Makepeace is devising a play, but his unruly characters disrupt the plot and threaten the building of his Folly.
Martyn Read's rollicking comedy stars Freddie Jones as Sir Morton Makepeace.
With Elizabeth Spriggs as Clarissa, Lady Mountjoy, Clive Swift as Reverend Wormald, Michael Cochrane as Robert Sutherland, Joanna Myers as Caroline Makepeace and Karl James as Thomas.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1991.
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