Conleth Hill
For Christmas Day, 2000, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a Marcy Kahan adaptation of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" approved by the Hart and Kaufman estates which starred Simon Callow as Whiteside, Elizabeth McGovern as Maggie, with Conleth Hill as Bert Jefferson, Cheryl Campbell as Lorraine Sheldon, John Sessions as Banjo and Professor Metz, Colin Stinton as Mr. Stanley, and Malcolm Sinclair as Beverley Carlton. Moira Petty, writing in "The Stage", said, ""Director Ned Chaillet elicited from his cast ... a smart, gag-telling pace, which gave it a sensational period flavour."