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At Home With The Brontes

Episode 2 of 6

Sisterly stage shenanigans, thanks to the Cloughbottom Ladies' Evening Guild. Stars Sheila Hancock and Pat Coombs. From 1978.

Bronte sisterly stage shenanigans as the ladies of the guild enter the district drama festival - and Madam Chairman Alice lands the lead role...

Starring Sheila Hancock and Pat Coombs.

Keith Parry's sitcom about the comic mishaps of the Ladies' Evening Guild, in the northern English town of Cloughbottom.

Alice Foster................Sheila Hancock
Phyllis Middleton.....Pat Coombs
Mrs Fothergill............Avis Bunnage
Ethel and Peggy........Clovissa Newcombe

Produced at BBC Manchester by Bob Oliver Rogers.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1978.

30 minutes

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