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NOEL COWARD first wrote Brief Encounter as one of the Tonight at "8.30 playlets, and then expanded it for the film. Starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, this film was one of the major successes of the British cinema in the post-war years. Now a radio adaptation of the film version has been produced by the NZBS, and will be heard in ZB Sunday Showcase on June 2. The story is well known. Laura Jesson is a middle-aged housewife, married and with two children. Alec Harvey, the doctor with whom she falls in love, is also married and has a family. They meet by accident in the refreshment rooms at the railway station, when she is returning from her weekly shopping trip and he is coming from his weekly duty at the hospital. The meetings continue, and Laura and Alec admit their love. But they are each too fond of their marriage partner and too attached ito their children to let the affair continue, and they part. Their quiet story is given comic relief by the interludes with the people in the station -the "refained" Myrtle, and Albert, the guard. Bernard Kearns produced Brief Encounter, and he plays Alec. Laura is taken by Dorothy Smith, and Fred, her husband, is played by William Burge. Doreen Corrick plays Myrtle, and Harold Pointer is Albert. Other parts are taken by Mavis Reesby, Pippa Robins, Margaret Stanbridge, Lesley Evans, Peggy Richardson, Anthony Cowan, Barrie Philpot, David Hindin, and Andrew Anderson. eee
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 31
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251PLAY FROM FILM New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 31
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