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Doos' Roost

Regional Programme
on Regional Programme Scotland

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A comedy with music
Specially written for broadcasting
Book, lyrics, and music by Douglas Raitt
Cast
Hotel guests, a crooner, waiters, a page, etc.
The action takes place in and around The Doves' Rest, a hotel somewhere in North-East Scotland
At the pianos, Jimmy Ross and Bill Thomson
Musical arrangements by Ruby Duncan
Production by Alan Melville

Contributors

Music:
Douglas Raitt
Piano:
Jimmy Ross
Piano:
Bill Thomson
Arrangements:
Ruby Duncan
Production:
Alan Melville
Joint owners of The Doves' Rest:
Meg Martin: Addie Ross
Dorothy Martin:
Enid Pinkham
McKay (general factotum at The Doves' Rest):
John Mearns
Henry Higgins (a guest, mainly because of Dorothy):
Howard M. Lockhart
Lili di Vicci (another guest, solely because of Henry):
Dorothy Forrest
Montague Blackface (her accomplice):
Tom Forbes
Source: Radio Times

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Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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