A Day in Summer

Jack Ruskin

Peplow

Miss Prosser

Ted Bellenger

Lydia Prosser

Rector

Georgina

Mrs. Emily Loatley

Nick Bellenger

Frederick Dolan

Mrs. Thickness

Mr. Thickness

Effie

Artie Dolan

Mrs. Peplow

Anne

Ella Bellenger

Margie Bellenger

Inspector Ellis

Police Sergeant

Station Master

Edwin Thickness

Mrs. Jackson

Customer in Hairdressers

Tom Peplow

The camera lingers on a fairground sign "All children must be paid for". This is highly appropriate, bearing in mind Peplow's quest to make sure that two of the fairground workers pay the ultimate price for killing his son in a drink-driving accident.

Mrs. Jackson: When you see Mr. Croser, will you tell him his breakfast is under the grill - using electricity.

Ruskin: We used to call him the Old Man of the Sea. He ditched, half way between Ostende and Bradwell Bay, and drifted in a dinghy for five days and five nights, alone - after he'd pushed his pilot overboard when his body began to smell. Can you imagine it, Rev? You can't and neither can I. The sea's a big place, even when you go down to it in ships. All around, nothing. Five days and five nights, with only a thin layer of rubber between you and it. Too cold to sleep at night. Too afraid to sleep in the daytime in case you miss the chance of a rescue. What will you die of? Hunger? Thirst? Cold? Will you die sane or mad? Muttering or shrieking? We can't imagine it, my dear Rector - it's beyond us, isn't it? But Ted Bellinger did it - the Old Man of the Sea did it. And he lived.

Ruskin: And you, Sir Theodore Firbank, did you die a hero's death when you crash-landed that gallant charger? Or did you scream - like my navigator?