BBC Radio Drama - Number Discontinued by Margaret Simpson

Number Discontinued by Margaret Simpson was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 FM, on 3rd December 1977

Adapted by Barry Campbell from the novel Sorry, Wrong Number by Margaret Simpson

This country in the not too distant future: everybody is registered by a number in one central computer. Jonny Lawler is a young hospital doctor who has worked out a risky but so far effective way of protecting those of his patients who have lost their numbers. But when a colleague calls him in to see the victim of a' car crash, he finds himself unwittingly in conflict with another form of manipulation of the system.



Dr Jonny Lawler: Julian Curry

Michael Rulman: Neville Jason

Yvette: Valerie Murray

Derek Withrington: Benjamin Whitrow

Barbara Luscombe: Tamara Ustinov

Annette Withrington: Joan Matheson

Slocomb /Minister: William Eedle

Guy Lusccmbe: Henry Knowles

Joy/Mrs Boone: Brenda Kaye

Mr Fitch/Gimlet: Jonathan Scott

Evans/Terry: Alaric Cotter

Simon/Second official: Timothy Bateson

Miss Davies: Mary Elliott Nelson

Cresswell: Malcolm Gerard

Trevor/Nemeson/First official: Michael Tudor Barnes

Leila: Jane Knowles

Dr Choudhury: Renu Setna

Special sound Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Directed By: Bernard Krichefski



Image thanks to geralt

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