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My Love to Sydney: Part 1: Contact!

on BBC Home Service Basic

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A flight to adventure, in six parts
Script by Phillip Leaver and Ernest Dudley
Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Lyrics by James Dyrenforth
Programme planned with the technical co-operation of British Overseas Airways Corporation
Characters: Amanda Linden, Squadron-Leader Bill Carey, R.A.A.F., Mrs. Agatha Pitt-Rumble, Mike Stanton, Aunt Georgina, Sir George Woodford; Air Oscar Wolfe
Airway officials, flying-boat crew, hotel staff, passengers, etc.
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Vernon Harris

Here is a new comedy thriller with music, planned to show the progress of civil aviation in wartime. The hero is one Bill Carey, a tough young squadron-leader of the Australian Air Force, who is a passenger on a plane to Australia. His companion is a young woman, Amanda Linden, on her way to Australia to lecture on British women's work in wartime. The story relates their adventures on the journey, and how they are pursued at every turn by enemy agents.

Contributors

Script By:
Phillip Leaver
Script By:
Ernest Dudley
Music By:
Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Unknown:
James Dyrenforth
Unknown:
Amanda Linden
Unknown:
Squadron-Leader Bill Carey
Unknown:
Mrs. Agatha Pitt-Rumble
Unknown:
Mike Stanton
Unknown:
Aunt Georgina
Unknown:
Sir George Woodford
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Unknown:
Bill Carey
Unknown:
Amanda Linden

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