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Can Mr Beluncle combine religion and money to help his failing business?

VS Pritchett's satirical novel - set in London's suburbs of the late 1920s.

Mr Beluncle's business is on the verge of bankruptcy. His son Henry is keeping his affair with Mary Phibbs a secret.

The religious fanatic David Vogg is planning to scupper the Church of the Last Purification, and Ethel Beluncle becomes more downtrodden by the moment...

Starring Freddie Jones.

Dramatised by Frederick Bradnum.

Philip Beluncle .... Freddie Jones
Ethel Beluncle .... Rosemary Leach
Linda Truslove .... Phyllida Nash
Lady Roads .... Maxine Audley
Mr Phibbs .... Alfred Burke
Mrs Vogg .... Lila Kaye
Judy Dykes .... Polly James
Henry .... Stephen Tompkinson
George .... Joseph Wright
Leslie .... Richard Pearce
Grandma .... Gladys Spencer
Mary Phibbs .... Victoria Carling
David Vogg .... John Church
Kitty Wix .... Zelah Clarke
Mr Chilly .... Paul Sirr
Mr Van der Hoek .... Blain Fairman
Mr Martin .... Kim Wall
Granger ....Tim Reynolds
Doctor ... John Samson

Music composed by Terence Albright.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in November 1987.

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