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2. Beeny's Camiknickers

1947: Mattie learns how to make faggots with Beeny - and discovers the perils of flirting with boys. Stars Jennifer Hill.

Winter, 1947: Mattie spends most of her time with Beeny in the bakery.

Here she learns how to make faggots - as well as discovering the perils of flirting with boys...

Second of Juliet Ace's trilogy of plays about the South Wales childhood of Mattie Jones.

Young Mattie ... Stephanie Wookey
Older Mattie ... Jennifer Hill
Beeny ... Shelley Miranda Barrett
Mrs Jones ... Donna Edwards
Mair ... Catherine Tregenna
Mona ... Rhian Morgan
Frankie Sherlock .... Rhodri Hugh
Ieuan .... Christian Patterson

Directed at BBC Wales by Tanya Nash.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.

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45 minutes

Last on

Wed 31 Dec 202505:00
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