Accrington Pals Radio Dramatisation
 

Oswaldtwistle Players and BBC Radio Lancashire have got together to produce a dramatisation of the play Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan.

It is being broadcast on Sunday 2nd July 2006 at 12noon.

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I'll be listening Gayle. I have heard the leader on Radio Lancashire it should be interesting…

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Last shameless plug for the radio show.

Cast list is as follows

May - Michelle Arthur
Tom - John Kirby
Eva - Gayle Knight
Sarah - Clare Highton
Bertha - Catherine Allan
Annie - Wendy Duggan
Reggie - Paul McGowan
Ralph - Chris Knight
Sgt Rivers - Malcolm Binns
Arthur - Paul Terry

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OK ... I'm tuned in Gayle, just to show hold no grudges for being cast asunder in the players list. :D

Everybody tune in now please, should be very enjoyable.

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Well done everybody: A commendable tribute to these men who gave up their lives for us. xx

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Well done Gayle and to the Ossy Players. Commendable effort and worthy of striking a disk. If you do have a recording of it I would be interested in acquiring a copy.

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Unfortunately, our license to perform and broadcast it does not allow us to record it for sale.

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That really is a shame. Is it going to be repeated Gayle. I know someone who wanted to hear it but wasn't able to today.

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It's a bit complicated.

The Oswaldtwistle Players hold the license for it to be broadcast once (today) and then repeated within the next fortnight. Unfortunately though, it's not us who decide the radio scheduling. Radio Lancs were going to rebroadcast it on Thursday but because of all the sport (we didn't think about when we first started the project) there might not be time left in their schedule.

Ossy Players agreement with Radio Lancs was that RL would then be allowed to apply for the license to broadcast it should they so wish to. They might be considering doing that for Christmas.

So, in other words - I don't know and it's not up to me. Might be worth sending an email to Radio Lancs and asking them - that might encourage them to broadcast it again.