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R F Delderfield

R F DELDERFIELD

  (1912 - 1971)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Georgia Glover

Novelist and dramatist R. F. Delderfield was born in London in 1912. His first job was as a junior reporter on the Exmouth Chronicle, where he worked his way up to the position of editor. He wrote a number of plays and some works of non-fiction, but is best known for his historical sagas, including A Horseman Riding By and To Serve Them All My Days. Many of his works have been adapted for television. He died in 1972.

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         Absent Lover         And then there Were None         Bride Wore An Opal Ring         Flashpoint         Glad Tidings         Golden Rain         Guinea-Pigs         Home Is the Hunted         Made To Measure         Mayerling Affair, The         Miaouw! Miaouw!         Musical Switch         My Dearest Angel         Napoleon In Love         Nobody Shouted Author         Offending Hand, The         Old Lady Of Cheadle         Once Aboard the Lugger         Orchard Walls         Peace Comes To Peckham         Prophet In Jeopardy         Queen Came By         Rounderlay Tradition         Sailors Beware         Smoke In the Valley         Spark In Judea         Ten Till Five         Testimonial, The         This Happy Brood         Waggonload O'monkeys         Where there's A Will         Wild Mink         Worm's Eye View

Absent Lover

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And then there Were None

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Bride Wore An Opal Ring

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Flashpoint

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yet you a daughter of a marmalade king, who married a feudal bully, accuse me of side-stepping reality"

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amatEur    1958

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Samuel French, London, 1958   -

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Glad Tidings

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Golden Rain

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Roger a clergyman has been appointed rector to a village in a rural area. He moves into the rectory with his wife Cathy. It is an old Georgian building and badly needs a new kitchen and heating system. On Roger's salary they cannot afford to pay for renovations and an approach to the archdeacon does not get them any money. Roger is very against current lax morals and is especially against the football pools - which he condemns regularly from his pulpit. In an effort to raise money Cathy takes a half share in a football pool with the cleaning lady. the dilEmma comes when they win

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Guinea-Pigs

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Home Is the Hunted

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about a convict mistakedly believing his home will be a peaceful retreat whilst he is on the run from prison

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Samuel French Ltd, London 1954   -

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Cockney Comedy One act

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Made To Measure

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Mayerling Affair, The

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On a January morning the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph of austria and Mary Vetsera were found in the hunting lodge at Maylerling. they had committed suicide there illicit love affair had become known and things had been made worse when a letter the Prince had sent to the Pope requesting a divorce so that he could marry Mary was sent by the Pope to Rudolph's Father the emperor.

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Period Drama

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Miaouw! Miaouw!

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Musical Switch

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De Wolfe and Stone 1954   -

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My Dearest Angel

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Guildford    1968

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Napoleon In Love

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Scotland    1960

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Nobody Shouted Author

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Offending Hand, The

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Old Lady Of Cheadle

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events around the 1745 Stuart uprising

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Once Aboard the Lugger

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two thousand four hundred gold pieces salvaged from the wreck, but who owns them?

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1st Produced:
Pavilion Theatre, exmouTheatre, Devon    1962

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Samuel French, London, 1962   -

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Orchard Walls

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the new principal at the Collegiate School for Girls has a more relaxed attitude to things than her predecessor and her deputy. One of the things that has been allowed is some social mixing with the nearby boys grammar school. the deputy finds a love letter written by one of the girls, Shirley to one of the boys Mike. Mike's Father is a garage owner. When Shirley's mother is told she immediately makes arrangements for Shirley to be sent to an aunt in Canada. the youngsters run away but are brought back by Mike's father. Shirley tries to kill herself.

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Peace Comes To Peckham

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Prophet In Jeopardy

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Queen Came By

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Rounderlay Tradition

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all-Women Comedy One act

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Sailors Beware

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as the Spanish armada approaches wives of the officers meet Queen Elizabeth I

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Smoke In the Valley

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Spark In Judea

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Ten Till Five

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Testimonial, The

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This Happy Brood

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Comedy Drama One act

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Waggonload O'monkeys

Synopsis:
Further adventures of Porter and Taffy

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Where there's A Will

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When old farmer Brewer dies no one can find his will so it looks like his Cockney cousins will inherit it. they know nothing of farming and would like to make a quick profit by selling it.

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Comedy

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Wild Mink

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Samuel French, London, 1962   -

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Worm's Eye View

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1942 - three airman are billeted with the Bounty family. the irksome rules that have been imposed on them and the fact that the heating has been turned off and the piano locked leads them to rebel.

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London    -

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Comedy

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