Fifty Years Ago
' This here Progress, it keeps on.'-Mr. Smallways in ' The War in the Air by H. G. Wells , 1908.
Written and compiled by Leslie Baily
Music composed and arranged by Alan Paul
Lord Brabazon of Tara a motorist in a cloth cap
Miss Dollis Brooke of the Pelissier Follies Mr. L. R. Willdridge representing the ordinary man and the voices of: Mr. Griffith Brewer the first English aeroplane passenger
Miss Florrie Forde star of the Music-Hall
In an Edwardian Scrapbook with songs, suffragettes and news stories of 1908 with Gladys Young , Andrew Faulds
Deryck Guyler , Helen Clare
Dudley Rolpn , Clarence Wright
Oliver Burt
Eric Phillips , Gordon Davies Betty Hardy , Margaret Leigh
Pages turned by Freddy Grisewood BBC Revue Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Alan Paul
Production by Vernon Harris