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Toytown: Portrait of the Mayor
Another play by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Puppets by Gordon Murray and settings by Andrew Brownfoot from illustrations by S.G. Hulme Beaman
(A BBC telerecording)

5.20 Music Time

5.40 The Lost Tribe of Motilon
Ross Salmon, showing film and objects collected during his expedition to South America, takes the final stage on his journey to the Motilon Indians.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Writer/Illustrations (Toytown):
S.G. Hulme Beaman
Voices (Toytown):
Madi Hedd
Voices (Toytown):
Peter Hawkins
Voices (Toytown):
Noel Coleman
Voices (Toytown):
Roy Skelton
Puppeteer (Toytown):
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteer (Toytown):
Molly Gibson
Puppeteer (Toytown):
Elizabeth Thorndike
Puppeteer (Toytown):
Bob Bura
Puppeteer (Toytown):
John Hardwick
Puppets/Producer (Toytown):
Gordon Murray
Settings (Toytown):
Andrew Brownfoot
Presenter (The Lost Tribe of Motilon):
Ross Salmon

Wilfred and Mabel Pickles visit the people of Brighton and invite them to ask for the things they would like you to see on your television screen.
From Butlin's Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, Brighton.

Contributors

Presenter:
Wilfred Pickles
Presenter:
Mabel Pickles
Special investigator:
Pauline Forrester
Special investigator:
Larry Forrester
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson
Producer:
Harry Carlisle

by Charles Dickens
Adapted in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley

In which Mr. Micawber decides upon a "final act of reparation" - in short, the undoing of Uriah Heep. And in which he invites his friends down to Canterbury to "witness an explosion."

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Dora:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Jip:
Champion Goldendays Penn Rose of St. Lucia
Miss Betsey Trotwood:
Sonia Dresdel
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Mr. Wilkins Micawber:
Hilton Edwards
A constable:
Raymond Adamson
Richard Babley:
Richard Goolden
Mr. Wickfield:
George Skillan
Uriah Heep:
Maxwell Shaw
Mrs. Heep:
Gretchen Franklin
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
A doctor:
Kevin Stoney

A musical version of the short story by Saki
English Opera Group Orchestra
(Leader, Olive Zorian)
Conducted by Lionel Salter

(June Bronhill appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.)
See page 6

Contributors

Author:
Saki [H.H. Munro]
Libretto:
Sidney Gilliat
Music:
Malcolm Arnold
Musicians:
English Opera Group Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Olive Zorian
Conductor:
Lionel Salter
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Producer:
George R. Foa
The maid:
Ethel Lyon
Mr. Nuttel:
John Carolan
Vera, a young girl:
June Bronhill
Mrs. Sappleton, Vera's aunt Alice:
Flora Nielsen
Edward, Mr. Sappleton:
Niven Miller
Jack, Mrs. Sappleton's brother:
David Oddie

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