On the Eve of Publication

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.

Cast

Leo McKern

Robert Kelvin

Michele Dotrice

Emma

Rosalind Knight

Barbara

Thorley Walters

Holland

Pauline Devany

Jane

Kay Dotrice

Ruth