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CHILDREN'S HOUR

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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' Portrait of the Mayor
A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Productjon by Josephine Plummer
5.30 First Attempts
Young artists making their first broadcast
From Manchester:
John Musgrave introduces
Ronald Binks (violin)
Gillian Lurie (mezzo-soprano)
Accompanist, Mabel Hardy
From Cardiff:
Teleri Phillips introduces Wendy Davies (soprano)
Accompanist, Mary Kendall
From London:
Barbara Sleigh introduces
Michael Lucock (flute)
Accompanist, Ernest Lush
At the organ, Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Unknown:
Josephine Plummer
Introduces:
John Musgrave
Violin:
Ronald Binks
Mezzo-Soprano:
Gillian Lurie
Accompanist:
Mabel Hardy
Introduces:
Teleri Phillips
Soprano:
Wendy Davies
Accompanist:
Mary Kendall
Introduces:
Barbara Sleigh
Flute:
Michael Lucock
Accompanist:
Ernest Lush
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Mr Growser:
Ralph De Rohan
The Mayor of Toytown:
Wilfred Babbage
The Artist:
Norman Shelley
Source: Radio Times

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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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