At the outbreak of war in 1939, the BBC evacuated its newly-formed Radio Drama Company of actors, led by Val Gielgud, to Worcestershire. To mark a hundred years of radio drama at the BBC, a cast of current and former members of the RDC perform this new drama by Hannah Khalil. So how do you record a play in the stables of a Victorian stately home?

Val Gielgud ..... Carl PrekoppLaurence ..... Joel MacCormackAudrey/Wendy ..... Clare CorbettPete/Bill ..... Ben CroweGladys ..... Jessica TurnerLeonard ..... John LightbodyMary ..... Kitty O’SullivanCharles Siepmann ..... Michael BertenshawWarden ..... Tyler CameronMarius Goring ..... Josh Bryant-Jones

Sound design by Peter Ringrose with Alison Craig and Mike EtherdenProduction Co-ordinator - Maggie Olgiati

Directed by Toby SwiftA BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4