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5.00 For Younger Listeners
'The Boy with the Green Thumb'
A series of six stories written by Barbara Euphan Todd and told by Eve
1: 'Mustard and Cress'
As everyone knows, people with green fingers can make almost anything grow, and people with green thumbs can make everything grow. But on the whole it's best to be mean with magic...

5.15 For Older Children
Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley in 'The Naval Treaty'
The first of six Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The action of the play takes place in London and Woking in the 1880s.
(Felix Felton is appearing in "Nekrassov" at the Royal Court Theatre)

Contributors

Author (The Boy with the Green Thumb):
Barbara Euphan Todd
Author (The Naval Treaty):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by (The Naval Treaty):
Felix Felton
Guest Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr. Watson:
Norman Shelley
Percy Phelps, an old school friend of Watson's:
Peter Coke
Annie Harrison, his fiancee:
Annabel Maule
Joseph Harrison, her elder brother:
James Thomason
Lord Holdhurst, the Foreign Secretary:
Felix Felton
Forbes, a Scotland Yard official:
Alan Reid

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