Slaves of the Sultan and the Shipping Forecast
by Richard Lloyd / Les Barker

To support the Friends of Grange Park appeal launch, (a charitable local community group attempting to raise £100,000 to build a new children’s playground in Grange Park, Old Coulsdon) TWC were asked to provide some entertainment. We reprised two elements from our earlier 2015 production, ‘Radio Days’, Richard Lloyd’s ‘Slaves of the Sultan’, (a spoof ‘jolly hockey-sticks’ drama about three daughters of the British Empire under threat from ‘Johnny Foreigner’ in darkest Zanzibar) and Les Barker’s somewhat surreal take on that BBC staple ‘The Shipping Forecast’.

Cast

BBC Announcer

Bruce Montgomery

Felicity Buff-Orpington, a wealthy heiress

Dawn Ford

Daphne Chichester, A grammar school gel

Indianna Scorziello

Morag McGovern, a working-class ladies’ maid

Hannah Montgomery

Roger, A stalwart chap

Connor Nestor

Selim Jiz, the Harem-keeper

Richard Lloyd

Kaesh Al-Gabouti, the Sultan’s Pander

Richard Lloyd

Sound Engineer

Mike Brown

Studio Manager

Paul Ford

Directed by

Paul Ford