This Happy Breed
The Gibbons family's inter-war life in a new suburban home from 1919 to 1939, when they move away. Stars John Moffatt.
The inter-war life of the Gibbons family in their new suburban home.
Starring John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach and Doris Hare.
Noel Coward's play covers a 20-year period from June 1919, when the Gibbons family move in to their new home near London鈥檚 Clapham Common, to when they moved out in June 1939.
Frank Gibbons 鈥�. John Moffatt
Ethel 鈥�. Rosemary Leach
Mrs Flint 鈥�. Doris Hare
Queenie 鈥�. Alice Arnold
Bob 鈥�. Robert Lang
Sylvia 鈥�. Anna Cropper
Billy 鈥�. Michael Maloney
Vi 鈥�. Julia Swift
Phyllis 鈥�. Elizabeth Mansfield
Reg 鈥�. John McAndrew
Sam 鈥�. Simon Treves
Written in 1939, This Happy Breed was not staged until 1942.
It was adapted as a film in 1944 directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson and John Mills.
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in September 1989.
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