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Last broadcast on Mon, 8 Jun 2009, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
By James Graham. It is 1979 and the Winter of Discontent. A resurgent Conservative Party has forced a motion of no confidence in the ailing Labour government. Every vote counts, so will Labour stalwart Alf, ill and dying in his Leeds hospital bed, be able to make it down to London to cast his crucial vote?
Alf ...... David Ryall
Tilda ...... Annabelle Dowler
Jim/Patient ...... Malcolm Tierney
Humphrey ...... Pip Torrens
Michael ...... David Hargreaves
Walter/MP 2/Taxi driver ...... Paul Rider
Whiskers/Speaker of the House ...... Philip Fox
Fitt/MP 1/Spriggs/Johnson Voice/Waiter ...... Stephen Hogan
McGuire/Presenter 1/Station Master ...... Matt Addis
Presenter 2/Train Announcer/Nurse ...... Lizzy Watts
Woman ...... Janice Acquah.
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Mon 8 Jun 200914:15
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