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The Charcoal-Burner's Son

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A dramatic story for children with music and a dragon, by L. du Garde Peach and Victor Hely-Hutchinson.
The cast includes Ernest Butcher, Eric Fawcett, Max Oldaker, Cyril Wells, Marjorie Wilson, Fred Yule
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

This is a classic of the Children's Hour in sound radio. It was first performed in 1928, and has since been repeated six times, two of these broadcasts being in the evening programmes.
As well as a dragon this story has an ogre, a queen, a king with a beard, a princess with a white dress and hundreds of pearls, and a hero with a sword-all the ingredients, in fact, to give the children thirty minutes of grand entertainment.
(to 16.15)

Contributors

Writer:
L. du Garde Peach
Writer:
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Musicians:
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader:
Boris Pecker
Conductor:
Hyam Greenbaum
Production:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
[Actor]:
Ernest Butcher
[Actor]:
Eric Fawcett
[Actor]:
Max Oldaker
[Actor]:
Cyril Wells
[Actress]:
Marjorie Wilson
[Actor]:
Fred Yule

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