Butterfingers by David Pownall

Government cuts in the Health Service are taking place.

But how should they be implemented?

A certain large mental hospital decides on a wonderfully novel way of achieving these cuts.

Meanwhile, it's the annual hospital cricket match...

Starring Henry Moxon, Geoffrey Beevers and Roy Barraclough.

Written by David Pownall.

Doctor Walton ... Henry Moxon
Doctor Phillimore ... Geoffrey Beevers
Nurse Braces ... David Mallinson
Nurse Wylie/Edith/Gloria ... Kathleen Helme
Tosher/Flixton .... Christopher Good
William/Major ... John Branwell
Henry/Member 1/ Nurse Robinson .... Robert Keegan
George/Al Geary/Member 2 ... James Tomlinson
Delilah ... Valerie Murray
Chairman/Merrivale ... Stanley Page
Johnstone ... Michael Carter
Jolly Jerry – hospital DJ - Roy Barraclough
Reverend Thomas/ Dermot/Pedro ... Ronald Herdman
Superintendent Ross ... Roger Phillips
Lidell/Corporal ... Stephen Hancock

Directed at BBC Manchester by Caroline Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1981.

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'Butterfingers’ is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.