(by permission of Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd.)
February 6 was the date originally arranged for this programme, but Victoria Hopper and Basil Dean are able to appear before the television camera this evening, a fortnight earlier.
Victoria Hopper was born in Vancouver and originally studied operatic singing - she has a fine soprano voice, which listeners heard recently. Her first important stage success was in the name part of Jean Jacques Bernard's "Martine". She is now one of the most brilliant actresses on the West End stage.
Basil Dean, her husband, is a well-known theatrical figure. He has been actor, producing manager, stage director, dramatic critic, and author. His many successful West End stage productions include "The Skin Game", "A Bill of Divorcement", "Loyalties", "East of Suez", "R.U.R.", "Rain", "The Vortex", "Young Woodley", "Autumn Crocus", "Service", and "Call It a Day". As a film producer he has been responsible for "The Constant Nymph" and "Lorna Doone", in both of which his wife starred.