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JR Planche - The Garrick Fever

4 Extra Debut. Ballinasloe, 1745: Excited locals expect great actor David Garrick as Hamlet, but a drunk scruff appears. Stars Ben Crocker.

1745: the inhabitants of Ballinasloe are going mad for the great actor, David Garrick - but is the drunken scruff playing Hamlet up on stage, really him...?

Stars Ben Crocker as Decimus Gingle, Jonathan Lermit as Mr Hardup, Moira Buffini as Polly Hardup, Valerie Boothman as Lady O'Leary / Kitty, Robin Watson as Major Derrydown, Michael Gabe as Mr Undertone and Harry Reeder as the Stage Manager

JR Planche's one-act farce, adapted and directed by David Blount

First broadcast in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre in 1990.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Feb 2017 01:00
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Broadcasts

  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 06:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 23 Feb 2017 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 24 Feb 2017 01:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra