BBC R4 - Harry Secombe's 'Twice Brightly'
Adapted by David Secombe [Harry's son]
Produced by Steven Canny and Claire Grove
Broadcast May 19, 2007
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Harry Secombe's semi-autobiographical comic novel.

Secombe based the character Larry Gower on himself.

Action takes place soon after WWII.

BBC Blurb
For young servicemen who had spent six years fighting fascism,
postwar Britain was a drab, oppressive place. For a young and
untried army comic keen on the Marx brothers, SJ Perelman and
Jimmy Cagney, a Yorkshire Variety theatre in February was a
vision of Hell itself.

Cast
Jim - John Cummins
April - Katy Secombe
Hubert - Geoffrey Beevers
Joe - Gerard McDermott
Julie - Becky Hindley
June - Ella Smith
Tom - Philip Jackson
Wally - Dominic Frisby
Mrs Ma Rogers - Carolyn Pickles
Larry Gower - Christian Patterson

Music by
Colin Seil
Paul Girbow
Henry Lowther
Raymond Swinfield