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Trains of All Ages
Trevor Hill is your guide at the Railway Museum, York.

5.30 The Dragon Embellishment
A play by Antony Brown.
Adapted for television from the story by Ernest Bramah.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on June 3, 1956)

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter (Trains of All Ages):
Trevor Hill
Producer (Trains of All Ages):
Ray Lakeland
Adapted by (The Dragon Embellishment):
Antony Brown
Author (The Dragon Embellishment):
Ernest Bramah
Producer (The Dragon Embellishment):
Rex Tucker
Wong T'sin, a potter:
Philip Ray
Fa Fai, his daughter:
Rosemary Miller
Wei Chang, a young workman:
Hugh David
Fang:
Gerald C. Lawson
Workman:
Frank Atkinson
Workman:
Reginald Barratt
Tong Yu, a rich merchant:
Philip Stainton

Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.

This week's letter: 'F'
Items include: Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang, Tony Fayne and David Evans, "Flotsam" (B.C. Hilliam) with a few musical notes, Moyra Fraser star of intimate revue and the famous theatrical personality Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.
Robert Farnon conducts his own compositions and provides the music for a Finale with choreography by Irving Davies.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Melville
Based on "A.B.C. of Show Business" by:
Wolf Mankowitz
Harmonicists:
Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang
Comedian:
Tony Fayne
Comedian:
David Evans
Singer:
"Flotsam" (B.C. Hilliam)
Dancer:
Moyra Fraser
Performer:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Conductor:
Robert Farnon
Choreography:
Irving Davies
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson
Research:
W. Macqueen-Pope
Research:
Peter Noble
Compiled by:
Ken Smith
Producer:
Bryan Sears

by Charles Dickens
Adapted in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley
Filmed inserts throughout the serial were by the BBC Film Sequence Unit, edited by Eddie Wallstab.

In which the emigrants sail; and in which David goes abroad to forget his grief, and on his return is blind no longer and at last sees where his future happiness lies. As friends reunite, Agnes, Betsey, Traddles, 'Mr. Dick', and Peggotty look forward to the "merriest Christmas we have ever known"

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Film Editor:
Eddie Wallstab
Wardrobe Supervision:
Elizabeth Agombar
Make-up supervised by:
Tommy Manderson
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Miss Betsey Trotwood:
Sonia Dresdel
Mr. Wilkins Micawber:
Hilton Edwards
Mrs. Emma Micawber:
Olga Lindo
Daniel Peggotty:
George Woodbridge
Little Emily:
Dorothy Gordon
Mrs. Gummidge:
Mabel Constanduros
A sailor:
George Murcell
A French lady:
Ann Heffernan
Alfonse:
Champion Goldendays Galliard Rose of St. Lucia
Mr. Wickfield:
George Skillan
Richard Babley:
Richard Goolden
Clara Peggotty:
Edna Morris
Mr. Bellstruther:
Peter Copley
Mrs. Sophy Traddles:
Barbara Bolton
A blind beggar:
Charles Wade

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