Afternoon Play - How Are You Feeling, Alf?

By James Graham. It is 1979 and the Winter of Discontent. A resurgent Conservative Party has forced a motion of no confidence in the ailing Labour government. Every vote counts, so will Labour stalwart Alf, ill and dying in his Leeds hospital bed, be able to make it down to London to cast his crucial vote? Alf ...... David Ryall Tilda ...... Annabelle Dowler Jim/Patient ...... Malcolm Tierney Humphrey ...... Pip Torrens Michael ...... David Hargreaves Walter/MP 2/Taxi driver ...... Paul Rider Whiskers/Speaker of the House ...... Philip Fox Fitt/MP 1/Spriggs/Johnson Voice/Waiter ...... Stephen Hogan McGuire/Presenter 1/Station Master ...... Matt Addis Presenter 2/Train Announcer/Nurse ...... Lizzy Watts Woman ...... Janice Acquah.