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1. Spray the Grass Green

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1939: When Hollywood star Lana Garfield is dumped by her studio, a ghost writer plots revenge. Stars June Whitfield. From 2012.

It's 1939 and Lana Garfield is a fading Hollywood star.

She's busy penning her autobiography with the assistance of British ghost writer, George Creighton.

Lana is contracted to Tantamount Pictures run by the notoriously difficult and womanising studio head, Al Seltzer.

But she's shocked when her radio reveals Al intends to axe her contract.

George and his ex-pat cronies take time off from their cocktails and cricket matches to collude with Al's ambitious and glamorous assistant Betty Stevens in exacting an appropriate revenge.

Starring June Whitfield.

Series of comedies written for the legendary actress by Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot.

Lana Garfield ..... June Whitfield
George Creighton ..... David Haig
Al Seltzer ..... Patrick Brennan
Betty Stevens ..... Tracy Wiles
Harry Harcourt-Jones ..... Robert Blythe
Edna Harper ..... Amaka Okafor
Boris Karloff ..... Peter Morfoot

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Apr 202503:00

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