BBC WS - 84, Charing Cross Road

BBC WS - Helene Hanff's '84, Charing Cross Road'

Adapted for the stage and radio by James Roose-Evans

Directed by Hilary Norrish

Broadcast May 4, 1992

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



A play built around twenty years of correspondence and

intercontinental book purchases recorded in Helene Hanff's

'true' novel.



This is the cast that performed the original West End play.



Miriam Karlin and Frank Finlay!



Cast

Helen Hanff - Miriam Karlin

Frank Doel - Frank Finlay

Maxine - Charmain May

Nora & Kay - Anna Nygh

Alvin, Ed & Bill - Robert Portal

Cecily & Ginny - Sarah Woodward

Megan & Charlady - Marilyn Findlay

George & Pilot - Peter Penry-Jones

Mary Boutlon & Joan - Elizabeth Bradley



NB This is not the shortened re-cast version the BBC broadcast in 2007.