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    Hobson's Choice
    Hobson's Choice
    Hobson's Choice
    Audiobook1 hour

    Hobson's Choice

    Written by Harold Brighouse

    Narrated by CART Company

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    About this audiobook

    Willie Mossop has an uncanny ability at shoemaking, but not much else. Teamed with shrewd businesslady and daughter of the town's leading cobbler, Maggie Hobson, the couple disrupt her father's life. As they rise to success and the other Hobson daughters are married off, Willie and Maggie make the best of their situation in this delightful classic, English country comedy.

    STARRING: BAIBRE DOWLING as Maggie Hobson, IAN ABERCROMBIE as Henry Hobson, JAMES LANCASTER as Willie Mossop, KATHLEEN FREEEMAN as Mrs. Wepworth, RICHARD ERDMAN as Fred Beenstock, SEAN McCLORY as Dr. MacFarlane, LINDA HENNING as Ada Figgins, ELLIOTT REID as Jim Heeler, LEON ADAMS as Albert Prosser, TOM WILLIAMS as Tubby Wardlow, CORNELIA HAYS O'HERLIHY as Vicky Hobson, FRANCISCA BEACH as Alice Hobson; AND and CART's Announcer, JOHN HARLAN.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCalifornia Artists Radio Theatre
    Release dateJan 1, 1984
    ISBN9781970031218
    Hobson's Choice
    Author

    Harold Brighouse

    Playwright Harold Brighouse (1882–1958) remains best known for his 1916 classic Hobson’s Choice. The story of how a tyrannical Lancashire boot maker is brought down to earth by his daughter and her simple husband, Hobson’s Choice has been much revived and was last seen in London at The Young Vic in 2003. It was filmed by David Lean with Charles Laughton and John Mills, and even adapted into a ballet. Brighouse brought a new and groundbreaking style to British theatre, portraying the bleak and harsh lives of the working classes, but combining it with a unique Northern flavour and wit. He was a leading member of the ‘Manchester School’ of playwrights, along with well known Northern writers such as Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, a group of writers all largely based at Annie Horniman’s Gaiety Theatre, Manchester. The Finborough Theatre revived Harold Brighouse's The Northerners in 2010.

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