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A Shilling Life (1982) | Slate

A Shilling Life

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A Shilling Life

An ex-West End playwright, interviewed by a hack-journalist for a railway station biography. How can this turn into a love story?

Released: 1982
Language: English

Direction and writing

Guy MeredithWriter

Michael HeffernanDirector

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Cast

Eric PorterPetersham
Julie CovingtonBarbara

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