The Unrest Cure by Saki

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**** This programme was originally suggested by John Henderson as part of one of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekends **** "When people break down under stress they're sent on rest cures." But Huddle is suffering from too much repose - so he needs the opposite kind of treatment. The cure Clovis prescribes, involves a group of fiendish boy scouts, several mysterious telegrams and the sinister Colonel Alberti... Starring Peter Egan. Saki's comic story freely adapted by Rex Anderson and Nick Higham Clovis Sangrail .... Peter Egan James Huddle .... Michael Aldridge Amelia Huddle .... Vivian Pickles Sir Flynn O'Toole .... Denys Hawthorne Hammond .... Patrick Barr Maid .... Jane Knowles Miss Doyle .... Diana Bishop First navvy .... Sion Probert Second navvy .... David McAlister Producer Paul Mayhew Archer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1981. **** To nominate a programme from the archive that you would like to hear again, please email radio4extra@bbc.co.uk ****