84 Charing Cross Road

BBC Play for Today

Directed by Mark Cullingham
Writers: Helene Hanff (book), Hugh Whitemore (dramatised by)

1975

  • Anne Jackson . . . . . . . . Helene Hanff
    Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . Frank Doel
    Kate Binchy . . . . . . . . Nora
    Marcella Markham . . . . . . . . Maxine
    Ann Penfold . . . . . . . . Cecily
    Pamela Miles . . . . . . . . Megan
    Maryann Turner . . . . . . . . Janet
    George Malpas . . . . . . . . Bill
    Ronald Russell . . . . . . . . George
    Sydney Arnold . . . . . . . . Mr. Marks
    Marjorie Wilde . . . . . . . . Mrs. Boulton
    Connie Booth . . . . . . . . Ginny
    Hilary Mason . . . . . . . . Voice of Joan Todd (voice)
    Gay Wilde . . . . . . . . Kay
    Leon Head . . . . . . . . Brian
    Angus MacInnes . . . . . . . . Ed





  • 84 Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, which has been made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.

    Frank appeared in the first televised version in 1975 and also in a BBC Radio Production of the James Roose-Evans play in 1992.

    He also made an audio book version with Rosemary Leach in 1993.

    Magical
    (The Observer)

    Entrancing
    (Daily Mail)

    A delight
    (New York Daily News)