Written by Henrik Ege
The Guide: Bernard Grun
The Visitor: Noelle Middleton with Victoria Campbell
John Hanson, Irene Prador
Zither music played by Ernst Naser
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe)
Conducted by Henry Krips
Produced by Edward Nash
Following the tribute to Oscar Straus, 'Prince of Vienna,' comes this series of four broadcasts.
These programmes will be deliberately nostalgic, presenting a musical picture of the Vienna of yesterday - gay, charming, and romantic. This lovely city will be seen through the eyes of Noelle Middleton, who plays the part of a British girl visitor on a four weeks' exchange holiday. Noelle Middleton, well known to viewers as an announcer, will be making her first appearance in sound radio. Her host and guide will be Bernard Grun, a close friend of Oscar Straus (and himself a composer who has lived In Vienna for more than twenty years. He will take listeners to many of the famous landmarks in and mound the city: the Palace of Schonbrunn, the Vienna Woods, Grinzing, St. Stephen's, the Vienna Opera, and further afield to the beautiful White Horse Inn in the Salzkammergut; and, of course, the Blue Danube.