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Ring Time
The best of all the pleasant things
The Christmas season brings
Are circuses with acrobats
And horses in the rings
To meet some of the animals
And see some of the thrills
Barrie Edgar's at Olympia to visit Bertram Mills.

Children's Newsreel

The Princess and the Pea
Adapted from Hans Andersen by Barbara Euphan Todd.
The action of the play takes place in a far-off country, long, long ago.
(Previously televised on December 31)

(to 18.20)

Contributors

Presenter (Ring Time):
Barrie Edgar
Presented by (Ring Time):
Stephen Wade
Author (The Princess and the Pea):
Hans Andersen
Adapter (The Princess and the Pea):
Barbara Euphan Todd
Producer (The Princess and the Pea):
Vivian Milroy
Songs set by (The Princess and the Pea):
David Davis
Settings (The Princess and the Pea):
Richard Wilmot
The Cook:
Will Leighton
Boots:
Charles Hodgson
The Nurse:
Constance Fraser
The Goose Girl:
Ann Summers
The Queen:
Catherine Lacey
Prince Cophetua:
Peter Rendall
Princess Indigo:
Susanna Hogan
King Cedric:
John Ruddock
Princess Evadne:
Carolyn Gorman

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