featuring
John Boulter , Dai Francis
Tony* Mercer, Margaret Savage and guest artists: The Johnstons Hugo D'Alton
Vocal arrangements by GEORGE MITCHELL orchestrations by ALAN bristow
THE MINSTRELS ORCHESTRA leader FREDDY CLAYTON
Conducted by George Mitchell Produced by CHARLES CHILTON and RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Sunday, 3.0 pm)
The fame of George Mitchell 's Minstrels is world-wide. They have broken all records and won numerous prizes for their work on television, radio, and on gramophone records, and they continue to break box-office records in theatres as far apart as Scarborough, Yorkshire, and Sydney, Australia George Mitchell and his choir have come a long way since 1949, when Charles Chilton first asked them to take part in a radio series. Listeners with long memories may recall it - it was entitled Cabin in the Cotton, and was based on the Uncle Remus stories. It featured Edric Connor and a twelve-year-old girl from South London whose name was Petula Clark