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Muffin the Mule
with Annette Mills who writes the songs and Ann Hogarth who pulls the strings.

Children's Newsreel

Bunter Won't Go!
A new story of Greyfriars School written for television by Frank Richards.
[Starring] Gerald Campion
(Previously televised last Thursday)
(Kynaston Reeves is appearing in 'Angels in Love' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter/Songwriter (Muffin the Mule):
Annette Mills
Puppeteer (Muffin the Mule):
Ann Hogarth
Writer (Bunter Won't Go!):
Frank Richards
Producer (Bunter Won't Go!):
Joy Harington
Designer (Bunter Won't Go!):
Stephen Bundy
Billy Bunter:
Gerald Campion
Harry Wharton:
Henry Searle
Bob Cherry:
Brian Smith
Frank Nugent:
Michael Danvers Walker
Johnny Bull:
Barry MacGregor
Hurree Singh:
Ronald Moody
Coker:
Miles Brown
Mr. Quelch:
Kynaston Reeves
Dr. Locke:
John Stuart

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(Second performance: Thursday at 9.45 p.m.)

A play by Peter Watling.
[Starring] John Robinson and Rachel Gurney

The action of the play takes place in the matron's sitting-room at Wyvern School
There is conflict in the wilderness which is a boys' school, conflict between boy and boy, between master and master, between sport and study. The two masters are Mr. Payne (who is in charge of the school sports) and Mr. Reynolds (who teaches Classics). Their proteges are Pemberton, who is spoiled and an ass but is good at cricket, and Miller, who is scruffy and perhaps given to hysteria, but a considerable scholar.
Mr. Reynolds's passion for learning is something vivid and personal; his attempts to understand his wild, young charges are equally real. And the boys are genuine, too. There is something moving in Miller's struggle to make others understand that he is something other than a remarkable swotting machine.
And at the centre of the action stands the Matron, not stiff and starchy, but as understanding and sympathetic as only the lovely Miss Gurney can make her.

Contributors

Author:
Peter Watling
Producer:
Dennis Vance
Director:
Chloe Gibson
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Miss Haslam:
Rachel Gurney
Pemberton:
Stuart Hutchison
Miller:
Nicholas Stevenson
Roger Payne:
Peter Coke
Mr. Reynolds:
John Robinson
Lady Hildebrand:
Mary Horn
Mr. Miller:
Jack Allen

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