Brandon Thomas Charley's Aunt

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The Saturday Play: Charley's Aunt Sat 23rd Dec 2000, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM Brandon Thomas's energetic farce in three acts- adapted by Jonathan Hall - is performed in front of a packed audience at Manchester Grammar School. Director:….Polly Thomas Jack:….John Griffin Charley:…..Morgan George Lord Babberley:…Chris Langham Amy:….Rina Mahoney Sir Francis:….Derek Griffiths Stephen:….James Quinn Kitty:…Fenella Woolgar Donna:…Brigit Forsyth Ela:….Alison Darling Set in the charmed world of an Oxford College, circa 1892, Jack and Charley are madly in love with the sweetest girls in the world - Amy and Kitty. But how to get through to them before their dastardly guardian, Mr Spettigue, whisks them off to the wilds of Scotland? Salvation appears in the form of a telegram from Charley's longlost benevolent aunt from Brazil,  [“where the nuts come from”] Donna Lucia... Charley's Aunt broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances. The play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in February 1892.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.