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Cavalcade of the Fifties: 1951

on BBC Home Service Basic

A series of programmes reviewing year by year the most memorable events in a decade of entertainment
Narrator, Robert Beatty
Cicely Courtneidge, Geraldine McEwan, Emrys Jones, Ronald Wilson, Stuart Hibberd, Harold Hobson, C.A. Lejeune, Harry Dawson with selections from the shows of the year:
'An American in Paris'
'Don't make fun of the Fair'
'South Pacific'
'Vitality'
'And So To Bed'
'Kiss Me Kate' featuring on gramophone records the voices of Gene Kelly, Georges GuStary, Mary Martin, Wilbur Evans, Leslie Henson, Patricia Morrison, Bill Johnson. Julie Wilson with The George Mitchell Choir
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Julien Gaillard)
Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
Script by Roy Plomley
Production by Tom Ronald

Contributors

Narrator:
Robert Beatty
Narrator:
Cicely Courtneidoe
Unknown:
Geraldine McEwan
Unknown:
Emrys Jones
Unknown:
Ronaid Wilson
Unknown:
Stuart Hibberd
Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
C. A. Lejeune
Unknown:
Harry Dawson
Unknown:
Gene Kelly.
Unknown:
Georges Gustary
Unknown:
Mary Martin.
Unknown:
Wilbur Evans
Unknown:
Leslie Henson
Unknown:
Patricia Morrison
Unknown:
Bill Johnson.
Unknown:
Julie Wilson
Leader:
Julien Gaillard
Conducted By:
Harry Rabinowitz
Script By:
Roy Plomley
Production By:
Tom Ronald

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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