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Blackpool Night: From 18/08/1963

From 18/08/1963

23/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Blackpool Night, From 18/08/1963

Morecambe and Wise and Ronnie Hilton head a star-spangled bill from Blackpool.

4 Extra Debut. Morecambe and Wise and Ronnie Hilton head a star-spangled bill from Blackpool's Jubilee Theatre, now sadly demolished. From August 1963.

Morecambe and Wise head a star-spangled bill from Blackpool's Jubilee Theatre - now sadly demolished.

With Ronnie Hilton, Reginald Dixon, Bill Waddington, Rawicz and Landauer, Elizabeth Larner, Tony Melody and The Four Ramblers. 

And the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra directed by Bernard Hermann. Deputy: M Davis

Introduced by Jack Watson

Produced by James Casey

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1963.

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