form y separately published work icon Once a Crook single work   radio play  
Adaptation of Once a Crook : A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts Evadne Price , Ken Attiwill , 1940 single work drama
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May have been adapted by Evadne Price and Ken Attiwill (unconfirmed).
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 Once a Crook
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Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Home Service as part of Saturday-Night Theatre, 23 October 1948.

    Producer: Martyn C. Webster.

    Cast:  Richard Williams (Inspector Marsh of Scotland Yard), Andrew Faulds (Andrews, his assistant), Charles Leno (Charlie Hopkins, ex-cracksman, now a publican), Dorothy Summers (Aunty, housekeeper of the 'Dog and Duck'), Marjorie Westbury (Bessie, barmaid), Harry Hutchinson (Hallelujah Harry, potboy of the Dog and Duck), Lydia Sherwood (Estelle Graham, the Duke's mistress), Lewis Stringer (Bill Hopkins), Ronan O'Casey (The Duke, a crook), Janet Morrison (Catie the Duke's new girl friend), and Ronald Sidney (Joseph).

    (Source: Radio Times, 15 October 1948, p.20.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,       1948 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon Saturday Night Theatre United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1943-1998 6430225 1943 series - publisher radio play

      A BBC radio anthology series broadcasting (usually) ninety-minute radio plays on Saturday nights: the plays were usually genre focused (crime, mysteries, or comedies) and included original works and adaptations of stage plays and novels.
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