Alex Ferguson Walpamur And Plywood


Saturday Night Theatre: Walpamur and Plywood Sat 13th Mar 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM Alex Ferguson's play retells a piece of north-east folk history. When Robert Lyon Master of Painting, went as an adult education tutor to the pit town of Ashington in the 1930s, he couldn't have known he would be starting a school of working-class painting which would persist almost to the present day. Director Dave Sheasby   Robert Lyon: Corin Redgrave Tollie Charlton: Derek Walmsley Tom Watts: John Branwell Julia Johnson: Christine Cox Miss Grindky/Mrs Bailey: Carole Copeland Harry Watson: Art Davies George Brown: David Begg Davie Robson: Joe Caffrey Constable/Porter: James Thackwray Boy: David Swinburne

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.