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Albert Graham from Montreal Canada. Posted 10 Mar 2004.
I have very fond memories Of plays by El du Gar Peach(spelling may be incorect)in the late thirties. | | |
|  | Dennis Coles from Toronto. Posted 11 May 2004.
I think this is how the name was spelt. Was he not in fact the author of the plays in the "Toytown" series, with Uncle Mac (Derek McCulloch) as Larry the Lamb and Norman Shelley (later famous for sitting in for Winston Churchill for a broadcast) as Dennis the Dachshund?
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| | Dennis Coles from Toronto. Posted 13 May 2004.
Somehow the spelling of the author's name got cut off: it was more like L. DuGarde Peach
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| | Dennis Coles from Toronto. Posted 13 May 2004.
No, I was wrong — just done some more research. "Toytown" was written by S. G. Hulme Beaman. L. Du Garde Peach was a film-script writer in the thirties, but certainly I remember his name on BBC radio during the war. Was it "The Castles of england" series? — with "that funny little man" Richard Goolden.
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| | Badger from Spain. Posted 27 May 2005.
Yes, it certainly was! On BBC radio Children's Hour. Castles of England was a wonderful series and with Richard Goolden as an insubordinate Saxon serf in Norman-occupied England, in for example, Arundel Castle. But, please, can anyone help to locate copies of any of these plays?
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| | Mrs M J Miles from Sevenoaks, UK. Posted 28 Jun 2005.
My Mum (79)and her sisters remember performing plays for children by L ( = Lawrence?)du Garde Peach at school/ Sunday school in the 30s. Does anyone have a list of these, or even better, the texts or know where they can be found?
Maggie
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