This Happy Breed
Directed by Donald McWhinnieWriter: Noël Coward
1969
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Frank Finlay . . . . . . . . . . Frank Gibbons
Dandy Nichols . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Flint
Gillian Martell . . . . . . . . . . Ethel Gibbons
Gillian Raine . . . . . . . . . . Aunt Sylvia
Tamara Hinchco . . . . . . . . . . Queenie Gibbons
Andrew Ray . . . . . . . . . . Billy Mitchell
Vivien Heilbron . . . . . . . . . . Vi Gibbons (as Vivienne Heibronn)
Terence Edmond . . . . . . . . . . Sam Leadbitter
Christopher Hancock . . . . . . . . . . Bob Mitchell
Robert Cook . . . . . . . . . . Reg Gibbons
Sara-Jane Ladbrook . . . . . . . . . . Edie
Mary Larkin . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis Blake
Part of a series of productions on the BBC to celebrate Noël Cowards 70th birthday.
It’s a lovely play to do, warm, full of love, different from Coward’s usual formula. Some of it is a bit too sentimental, too patriotic, but that’s been cut anyway to get it down to 90 minutes.
Frank Finlay in This Happy Breed
Radio Times 4th December 1969