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SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE
Sat 27th May 1961, 20:30 on BBC Home Service Basic
Look to the Lady
A new production of the play first broadcast on June 16. 1957
Richard Hurndall as Albert Campion

A radio play by Felix Felton and Susan Ashman from the novel by Margery Allingham with Richard Hurndail, Mary Wimbush, David March and Peter Claughton

Production by Audrey Cameron

The Chalice has been in the keeping of the Gyrth family for centuries. On his twenty-fifth birthday, the male heir is told the secret of the Chalice, and that a representative of the Crown comes to inspect it every ten years.

Cast in order of speaking
Val St John Gyrth: David March
Lugg: Peter Claughton
Albert Campion: Richard Hurndall
Mrs Dick Shannon: Mary Wimbush
Penny Gyrth: Gudrun Ure
Beth Cairey: Diana Olsson
Dr Cobden: Philip Leaver
Major King: Tom Watson
Horace Putnam: William Eedle
Colonel Sir Percival Gvrth: Wilfred Babbage
' Fingers ' Hawkins: John Bryning
Israel Melchizadek: Haydn Jones
Professor Cairey: David Bird
Old Peck: Julian Somers
Percy Peck: John Graham
Sammy Munsey: Geoffrey Matthews
Mrs Munsey: Kathleen Helme
The Visitor: Godfrey Kenton
Other parts played by members of the cast