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As Prescribed
DUDLEY SAVAGE at the organ of the ABC Theatre in Plymouth and WINGATES TEMPERANCE BAND conductor Richard EVANS with music requested for patients in hospital or at home. Producer IAN CARSON
Requests, on postcards please, to: As Prescribed, BBC, Plymouth

Contributors

Unknown:
Dudley Savage
Conductor:
Richard Evans
Producer:
Ian Carson

Alec Taylor visits children's choirs all over Britain in search of songs and hymns for Sunday morning.
This week: from Belfast, choirs from Skegoneill and Holy Family Primary Schools and Model Girls' Secondary School
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Presenter:
Alec Taylor
Producer:
Moore Wasson

introduces
Melodies for You
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
THE REGINALD LEOPOLD ORCHESTRA with PATRICIA MCCARRY Producer PETER BELL

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
Vilem Tausky
Unknown:
Reginald Leopold
Unknown:
Patricia McCarry
Producer:
Peter Bell

Introduced by Jean Challis Taking part:
ANDREW PASTOUNA, BFBS Cologne
PETER MCDONAGH , BFBs Malta
JUNE ARMSTRONG-WRIGHT, Radio and TV Hong Kong STEVE cossER, ABC Sydney Producer PAM cox
(17 October: BFBS Cologne, BFBS Gibraltar, Hong Kong and Australia)
(Requests on postcards please, to: Family Favourites, BBC, London WIA 4WW)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jean Challis
Unknown:
Peter McDonagh

written and adapted by EDDIE BRABEN with Richard Mathews Ann Hamilton and Michael Kilgarriff
Special singing guest Clodagh Rodgers Music from
PETER KNIGHT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Saturday 7.2 pm 1500m, and 202m Scotland)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Eddie Braben
Unknown:
Richard Mathews
Unknown:
Ann Hamilton
Unknown:
Michael Kilgarriff
Unknown:
Clodagh Rodgers
Unknown:
Peter Knight
Producer:
John Browell

A celebration of 50 years of film musicals.
15: And Then 1 Wrote
' Swanee River (the Stephen Foster Story) was great fun, and to have that great score going for you, it was enough reason to make the picture.'
(DON AMECHE )
' The Story of Victor Herbert wasn't authentic, it was a manufactured story.'
(ALLAN JONES)
'Yankee Doodle Dandy (the George M. Cohan Story) - just mention it and I cry. I've seen it hundreds of times, Just love It.' (GEORGE SIDNEY) Douglas Fairbanks Jr examines the way in which Hollywood made screen drama out of the lives of the songwriters it helped make famous. Also taking part:
DON AMECHE , GEORGE BURNS
JAMES CAGNEY , BETTY GARRETT RAY HEINOORF , ALLAN JONES
HOWARD KEEL , GEORGE SIDNEY MEL TORME , HAL WALLIS
Written by BENNY GREEN
Producers JOHN BILLINGHAM and MEL HOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Ameche
Unknown:
Victor Herbert
Unknown:
Don Ameche
Unknown:
George Burns
Unknown:
James Cagney
Unknown:
Betty Garrett
Unknown:
Ray Heinoorf
Unknown:
Allan Jones
Unknown:
Howard Keel
Unknown:
George Sidney
Unknown:
Mel Torme
Unknown:
Hal Wallis
Written By:
Benny Green

Introduced by BLAIR ARMSTRONG from the North Church of St Andrew, Aberdeen, with the CHURCH ORCHESTRA and united choirs of the district.
Conductor of Praise HAMISH PARK Organist JOHN RHIND
Prayer and Blessing by REV DR ALAN MAIN
Praise waits for thee (St Stephen); Look from the sphere of endless day (Lichfield); Tell me the old, old story (Tell me): Will your anchor hold? (Will your anchor hold?); Summer suns are glowing (Ruth); Rejoice, the Lord is King (Darwall's 148th): 0 come, and let us to the Lord (Bon Accord); Almighty Father of all things (Chilton Foliat ); All praise to thee. my God (Tallis' Canon). BBC Scotland

Contributors

Introduced By:
Blair Armstrong
Organist:
John Rhind
Unknown:
Chilton Foliat

Direct from the De La Warr Pavilion. BexhiH
ASHLEY LAWRENCE Conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS
SANDRA DUGDALE
ALAN CIVIL (horn)
MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano) Introduced by Alan Keith
Producer CHARLES CLARK-MAXWELL (Presented in association with Rother District Council)

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Leader:
Sandra Dugdale
Piano:
Martin Goldstein
Introduced By:
Alan Keith
Producer:
Charles Clark-Maxwell

BBC MIDLAND RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHNNY DOUGLAS THE PAIREY BAND conductor KENNETH DENNISON Introduced by James Alexander Gordon Producer ALLAN GILES

Contributors

Conducted By:
Johnny Douglas
Conductor:
Kenneth Dennison
Introduced By:
James Alexander Gordon
Producer:
Allan Giles

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