The Return of General Forefinger


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A BBC Radio production of a "Comedy of Motive". Augusta Forefinger, the elderly widow of a 19th century Empire-builder lives now in the observatory of her family's ancestral home in County Cork, Limerick, Ireland. She has an incredible, not to mention eccentric,  ambition ... she wants to bring home to Ireland EVERY SINGLE statue of her late husband home to Ireland ... regardless of location or cost. Her distant cousin, who lives with her, is ready to humor her in this remarkable undertaking, but the resulting events could prove  ... well, terrifying (in the humorous sense) might be too strong a word ... George F. Brady ... Nigel Stock Binnie ... Muriel Pavlov Augusta Forefinger ... Mary O'Farrell Quentin Ashmold ... Peter Howell Linda ... Elizabeth Proud Spine-Pad ... Norman Wynne McNab ... Roger Snowden Moti ... David Spenser Clancy ... Robert Mooney Tim ... Kenneth Dight Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Producer ... Michael Bakewell Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme 25 July 1961

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.