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'The Princess and the Goblins': a play by Barbara Sleigh from the book by George Macdonald.
Produced by W. E. Davis.
Part 2
(Harcourt Williams broadcasts by permission of the Covent Garden Opera Trust)

5.40 'Pigeon Post,' by Arthur Ransome.
Today Derek McCulloch reaches the end of the story

Contributors

Play By:
Barbara Sleigh
Book By:
George MacDonald.
Produced By:
W. E. Davis.
Unknown:
Arthur Ransome.
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Harcourt Williams
Princess Irene:
Joyce Moore
The King her father:
Wilfred Babbage
Lootie:
Mabel Constanduros
Curdie:
John Alexander
Grandmother:
Mary O'Farrell
Goblin King:
Norman Shelley
Goblin Queen:
Vivienne Chatterton
Harelip:
Lionel Stevens
Sir Walter:
Andrew Churchman
Source: Radio Times

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