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Children's Hour

on BBC Home Service Basic

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For Listeners Of All Ages
'Robert Rocket Esquire'
Another Cameo Cartoon
Written and produced for radio by Trevor Hill
Incidental music by Henry Reed who conducts the chorus and a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra
(A new production of the cartoon originally broadcast in 1950)

5.30 For Older Children
Music For Two Pianos played by Olive Rees and Mary Madden
and 'The Lord Mayor's Show through Seven Hundred Years': talk by Ivor Noel Hume

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Hill
Music By:
Henry Reed
Played By:
Olive Rees
Played By:
Mary Madden
Talk By:
Ivor Noel Hume
The Cuckoo in the Clock:
Jimmy Thompson
Robert Rocket:
Hugh Morton
Miss Katherine Wheel:
Margaret Young
Octavius, a Roman Candle:
Fred Fairolough
Gretchen, the Dutch Doll:
Bille Whitelaw
The Teddy Bear:
Geoffrey Banks
The Clown:
John Broadbent
The Little Girl:
Joyce Palin
The Little Boy:
Scot Finch
The Father:
Andrew Worlidge
Storyteller:
Noel Johnson

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

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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