Christmas Holiday
by sw
The Afternoon Play: Christmas Holiday Sun 28th Dec 1986, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Somerset Maugham, dramatised by Jeffrey Segal 'By God, what a time I am going to have,' thinks Charley when at Christmas 1938 he goes to Paris to visit his old schoolfriend Simon. As ignorant of the storm clouds lowering over Europe as he is of any world outside his own comfortable, cultured middle-class English background, Charley does not have quite the Christmas that he expected. Pianist: Mary Nash Director: Graham Gauld With Peter Rumney as Charley Mason Elizabeth Lindsay as Lydia Berger Anthony Daniels as Simon Fenimore. Venetia Mason: Monica Grey Leslie Mason: Jeffrey Segal Patsy Mason: Jenny Funnell Mlle Ernestine: Carole Boyd Mme Berger: Mary Wimbush Robert Berger: George Parsons Hotel manager: Richard Durden Detective: David Goodland
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.