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A BALLAD CONCERT

on National Programme Daventry

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Lilian Keyes (soprano)
Arthur G. Rees (baritone) Lilian Keyes, who used to broadcast from Cardiff while still in her 'teens, came to London in 1929 to study the piano at the Royal Academy of Music, with singing as her second study. She became one of the Wireless Singers, staying with them for three years. She 'first went into films in 1933, and three years later played in the film Boots with George Formby. Arthur Rees, who used to broadcast from Marconi House, played leading parts for two years with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. He is King Wolf in the Covent Garden pantomime Red Riding Hood and makes a return to the microphone today after an absence of six years.

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Soprano:
Lilian Keyes
Baritone:
Arthur G. Rees

National Programme Daventry

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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