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Eight Bells

on National Programme Daventry

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Written and arranged by Mungo Dewar

The Characters:
Shorty Sinclair, Lofty Delaney - Able Seamen
Tubby Warren - Coxswain of the First Picket Boat
Boyle and Shovell - Stokers ('The Singing Dustmen')
Jock Mackay - Seaman-Gunner
Port Four-Inch Gun's Crew Quartet: Dusty Miller, Nobby Clark, Knocker White, Buck Taylor
Midshipman Arthur Bledisloe Marjoribanks
Davy Jones and Barnacle Billies
The 'Blanco' Boys, The Ship's Band
The Ship's Company and The Sergeant o'Marines

Scene:
The Quarter-Deck of H.M.S. St. George

The BBC Variety Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus
The Three Ginx

Contributors

Writer/Arranger:
Mungo Dewar
Musicians:
The BBC Variety Orchestra
Singers:
BBC Male Voice Chorus
Singers:
The Three Ginx
Conductor:
Kneale Kelley
Producer:
Harry S. Pepper
[Actor]:
A.C. Astor
[Actor]:
Fred Gwyn
[Actor]:
George Hirste
[Actor]:
Bernard Reillie
[Actor]:
Raymond Newell
[Actor]:
Arthur Askey
[Actor]:
Jack Banbury
[Actor]:
Harry Sherman
[Actor]:
John Duncan
[Actor]:
Stearn Scott
[Actor]:
Ivan Golding
[Actor]:
Claude Pilgrim

National Programme Daventry

About National Programme

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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