BBC R4 - Arsenic And Old Lace

BBC R4 - Joseph Kesselring's 'Arsenic And Old Lace'

Directed by Graham Gauld

Originally broadcast May 29, 1971

This recording made October 9, 1976

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



The Brewster sisters are kind and generous old

ladies, so it's a shock to their nephew Mortimer

to discover that they poison lonely old men.



This production is in line with the stage play rather

than the film.



Cast

Abby Brewster - Dame Sybil Thorndike

Mortimer Brewster - Dinsdale Landen

Elaine Harper - Prunella Scales

Dr. Harper - Lewis Stringer

Officer Klein - John Rye

Dr. Einstein - Gerald Cross

Officer Brophy - David Valla

Officer O'Hara - Alaric Cotter

Martha Brewster - Athene Seyler

Jonathon Brewster - Heron Carvic

Mr Witherspoon - Lockwood West

Lieutenant Rooney - Edward Kelsey

Teddy Brewster - Desmond Walter Ellis