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Original Release
10/06/1985
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alan Bennett | Self |
| Melvyn Bragg | Self - Presenter |
| Noël Coward | Hawthorne (clip from Our Man in Havana (1959)) |
| John Howard Davies | Oliver Twist (clip from Oliver Twist (1948)) |
| John Gielgud | Hamlet (clip from 1944 stage production) |
| Alec Guinness | Self |
| Tyrone Guthrie | Self |
| Sessue Hayakawa | Colonel Saito (clip from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)) |
| Eileen Herlie | Gertrude (clip from Hamlet (1948)) |
| John Mills | Pip (clip from Great Expectations (1946)) |
Directors
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alan Bennett | Self |
| Melvyn Bragg | Self - Presenter |
| Noël Coward | Hawthorne (clip from Our Man in Havana (1959)) |
| John Howard Davies | Oliver Twist (clip from Oliver Twist (1948)) |
| John Gielgud | Hamlet (clip from 1944 stage production) |
| Alec Guinness | Self |
| Tyrone Guthrie | Self |
| Sessue Hayakawa | Colonel Saito (clip from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)) |
| Eileen Herlie | Gertrude (clip from Hamlet (1948)) |
| John Mills | Pip (clip from Great Expectations (1946)) |
| Anthony Newley | Artful Dodger (clip from Oliver Twist (1948)) |
| Laurence Olivier | Hamlet |
| Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother | Self |
| Merula Salaman | Self - Alec Guinness' wife |
| Nellie Wallace | Self |
| Allan Cuthbertson | Capt. Eric Simpson (clip from Tunes of Glory (1960)) |
| Stanley Holloway | Pendlebury (clip from The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)) |
| Gordon Jackson | Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (clip from Tunes of Glory (1960)) |
| Sidney James | Lackery (clip from The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)) |
| Peter McEnery | 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon (clip from Tunes of Glory (1960)) |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Alan Benson | Executive Producer |
| Nigel Wattis | Producer |
