R.D. Wingfield Compensating Error

With Deryck Guyler as Davenport, George Benson as Desmond.

Rodney Wingfield's first play - set in a bank. There's a new manager who's only interested in productivity, and there are sackings. But two redundant old buffers hatch a plan to get their own back.

Davenport and Desmond have been warring with each other for thirty-five years at Webster and Co. Only when they are summarily dismissed do they discover the advantage of working together. It can prove very profitable

Roberts:……..Garard Green
Hewitt:………Peter Tuddenham
Brian:…………Nigel Lambert
Davenport:………..Deryck Guyler
Jackson:…………Alan Downer
Desmond:………..George Benson
Fawcett:……….David Spenser
Janet:……..Madi Hedd
Mrs Harris:………Kathleen Helme
Flo:……….Hilda Kriskman
West:……….Alan Cotter
Bank manager:………..Charles Simon

Produced by Glyn Dearman

Midweek Theatre: Compensating Error
Wed 3rd Sep 1969, 20:15 on BBC Radio 2

.....a play which brings back not-so-happy memories of office life back in the 1960s, with its petty backbiting and intrigues, and which has a nice twist in its tail. Splendid characterisations of two crafty old buffers by Deryck Guyler and George Benson. (-Roger Bickerton).

A compensating error is an accounting error that offsets another accounting error. These errors can be difficult to spot when they occur within the same account and in the same reporting period, since the net effect is zero. A statistical analysis of an account may not find a compensating error.