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Radio 4 Extra,28 May 1999,45 mins

Available for 21 days

It's 1948 and Mattie is now fascinated by Mona Morgan and her daydreams about Hollywood film stars. She's now pulling pints in her father's pub, the Malabar. Last of Juliet Ace's trilogy of plays about the South Wales childhood of Mattie Jones. Young Mattie .... Stephanie Wookey Older Mattie .... Jennifer Hill Mona .... Rhian Morgan Garfield .... Ifan Huw Dafydd Beeny .... Shelley Miranda Barrett Doris .... Cler Stephens Tom ...Jeremi Cockram Bryn ... lestyn Jones Directed at BBC Wales by Tanya Nash. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999. ***** 4 Extra remembers Juliet Ace who died aged 87 on 8th August 2025.

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