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Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

Ten-year-old Geoffrey gets two very strange gifts from his neglectful and eccentric parents. Stars Maggie Steed and Timothy West.

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A man called Geoffrey remembers his boyhood with two neglectful and oblivious parents.

His American mother looked after him just enough to avoid prosecution - and his father who made him a hat out of his pet dog.

Darkly comic tale written by Keith Lawes

Mr Greenfield ........................................ Timothy West
Mrs Greenfield ...................................... Maggie Steed
Geoffrey Greenfield (as a man) ...... Jonathan Coy
Geoffrey Greenfield (as a boy) ....... Harry Capehorn.

Producer Phil Bowker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.

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