This Happy Breed by Noel Coward

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

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