or ' The Skipper of the Scallywag '
A Comic Semi-Nautical Operetta by Ashley Steme and A. A. Thomson
Lyrics by A. A. Thomson
Music by Ashley Steme
Characters, in order of speaking
1939 The Ancient Mariner and a chorus of villagers, sailors, and Island maidens with the BBC Revue Chorus and Augmented Variety Orchestra, conducted by Percival Mackey
The scene is the bar-parlour of The Poop and Porthole, alternating between the years 1939 and 1789, with sundry interludes at sea and on Crocus Island in the South Pacific
Production by Archie Campbell
' All Hands Ashore' will be broadcast again on Saturday (Regional,
4.0)