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"Jules de Jongh as Emily"
"Me? Why me?"
"Teresa Gallagher as Marion, Natalie, the American Diesel, Cassia, Annie and Clarabel"
"Christopher Ragland as Percy"
"Thomas! I heard Thomas' whistle!"
"Rachael Miller as Angelique"
"Steven Kynman as Duck and Paxton"
"Christopher Ragland as Percy, Racing Car 4 and the Cowboys"
"Keith Wickham as Edward, Henry, Gordon, Harold and the Thin Controller"
"Kerry Shale as Henry, Gordon, Harold and Mr. Percival"
"(singing) Sometimes you make."
"Where in the world are you, Thomas."
"Peter Andre as Ace"
"Keith Wickham as Sir Topham Hatt, Bertie, Captain and Dowager Hatt"
"David Menkin as Racing Car 3"
"Kerry Shale as Beau and Diesel"
"Gabriel Porras as Carlos, Emerson, the Coffee Trucks and Various South American Voices"
"Matt Wilkinson as Ben, Tony and the American Crane"
"Rob Rackstraw as James, Donald, Sam, Big Mickey, Wilbert Awdry and the Senegal Race Announcer"
"John Hasler as Thomas"
"Teresa Gallagher as Emily"
"William Hope as Edward and Toby"
"Abubakar Salim as Kwaku"
"Glenn Wrage as Cranky"
"[last line] Then where in the world is he?"
"2 tank locomotives are much better than one, you know."
"[last line] I don’t suppose you seen this tank engine, Blue with the number 1 on the side of him. He’s called…"
"[last line] Thomas?"
"Yvonne Grundy as Nia"
"Dan Li as Yong Bao"
"Yes, she is."
"Richie Campbell, Akiya Henry, Chipo Chung and Dona Adwera as the additional African voices"
"Nicola Stapleton as Rosie"
"Tim Whitnall as Timothy and the Moai Head"
"Bob Golding as Sidney"
"Lucy Montgomery as Carly and the Cowgirls"
"Su-Lin Looi as the Chinese Diesel"
"Rasmus Hardiker as Bill and Philip"
"We should."
"Rufus Jones as the Flying Scotsman"
"Joe Mills as Douglas and Oliver"
"Tracy-Ann Oberman as Daisy"
"Rob Rackstraw as Toby"
"Nigel Pilkington as Percy"
"Matt Wilkinson as Cranky"
"Joseph May as Thomas"
"Would you be so kind as to GET ME OUT OF HERE?!"
"Kathleen Barr as The Bee"
"Kathleen Barr as Mozart the Mouse"
"Kathleen Barr as The Owl"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.