An inconsequent revue, written by Loftus Wigram, with music by Eric Spear
Cast: Dick Francis, Vera Lennox, Horace Percival, Jacques Brown, Helen Clare, Geoffrey Wincott, Ronnie Hill, and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Production by Roy Speer
The scene is a studio during the first rehearsal of a Variety programme
Though everything will be exaggerated and burlesqued, listeners should get a good idea of what a rehearsal for a radio musical comedy involves. The cast will sit round the studio reading through their scripts; the author will be present, agonised by the alterations made in his script; the composer will tear his hair as the conductor changes his score; while the producer, stop-watch in hand, will try to appease a temperamental cast as he reduces an hour's programme to one of thirty minutes.