Dithering Heights By Ken Whitmore

**** This programme was suggested by Mandy Poulton as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's All Request Weekend ****

Theatre impresario Jimmy Trotter is licking his wounds after the failure of the tour of his musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights – which ran out of cash in Keighley and closed in Bingley. Having done a runner, he comes across Thornfield Heights, a deserted old house on the Yorkshire Moors, seven miles from Haworth and an ideal location for his latest dead cert – The Brontë Weekend - aimed at ‘lady culture vultures'.

What he doesn't know is that the remote, supposedly haunted, house is a recently closed-down brothel, which the police have under surveillance. When an unexpected party of women turns up, strange things begin to occur -

Written by Ken Whitmore.

Jimmy Trotter - Aubrey Woods

Oswald - Nigel Anthony

PC Fanshaw - Sam Kelly

Mrs Ablett - Meg Johnson

Jane - Joanne Zorian

Dr Malloy - Bonnie Hurren

Arthur Tattersall - Ronald Baddiley

Dr Skull - Ronald Herdman

Mrs Tattersall - Heather Stoney

Director: Alfred Bradley

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A struggling impresario's Bront\u00eb Weekend scheme in a deserted house doesn't go to plan.

A struggling impresario's Brontë Weekend scheme in a deserted house doesn't quite go to plan. Stars Aubrey Woods. From 1985.

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