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The Wrong Label

Afternoon Drama, Lost Property Episode 1 of 3

Duration:
45 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 03 May 2011

by Katie Hims. London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is to tantamount to siding with Hitler.

Cast

Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero
Alice ..... Alex Tregear
Queenie ..... Katie Angelou
Ray ..... Daniel Cooper
Jim ..... Daniel Rabin
Mr Nightingale ..... Stuart McLoughlin
Miss Pearl ..... Bethan Walker
Miss Stanwyck ..... Sally Orrock
Mr Jones ..... Sean Baker
Mrs Jones ..... Joanna Monro

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

The Wrong Label is part one of a trilogy of plays by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one family's tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. The trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress award.

  • Katie Angelou (Queenie) and Daniel Cooper (Ray)

    Katie Angelou (Queenie) and Daniel Cooper (Ray)

  • Daniel Rabin (Jim) and Alex Tregear (Alice)

    Daniel Rabin (Jim) and Alex Tregear (Alice)

  • Bethan Walker (Miss Pearl)

    Bethan Walker (Miss Pearl)

  • Rosie Cavaliero (The Narrator)

    Rosie Cavaliero (The Narrator)

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