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A weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

A pamphlet giving notes on these exercises (price 9d.) and a folder for Women's Television Notes (price 2s.) may be obtained, post free, from [address removed]. (Crossed postal order, please-not stamps.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by:
Ann Shead
Presented by:
Desmond O'Leary

by Charles Dickens
Adapted in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley.
For Older Children

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on November 23, 1956)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Producer:
Douglas Allen
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Dora:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
Miss Betsey Trotwood:
Sonia Dresdel
Richard Babley ('Mr. Dick'):
Richard Goolden
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Mr. Wilkins Micawber:
Hilton Edwards
Mrs. Emma Micawber:
Olga Lindo
Mary Anne Paragon:
Marion Mathie
Mr. Blackboy:
Jack Rodney
A thin page:
Ian Whittaker
Jip:
Champion Golden Days Penn Rose of St. Lucia
A fat page:
Glyn Dearman

where Patricia Lewis introduces a light-hearted entertainment with Eddie McDonald,
Joan Manning, Tony Raine, The Brunette Toppers and Nat Temple and his Orchestra.
See page 4

Contributors

Presenter:
Patricia Lewis
Singer:
Eddie McDonald
Singer:
Joan Manning
Pianist:
Tony Raine
Dancers:
The Brunette Toppers
Musicians:
Nat Temple and his Orchestra
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Producer:
Richard Afton

Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment and some of its more unusual aspects.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.
This week's letter 'K' introduces:
Eartha Kitt in an interview specially filmed for the programme.
and in the studio: Pat Kirkwood, Kay Cavendish (Kay on the Keys), Henry Kendall,
Anton Karas and his zither on a flying visit from Vienna, The Kentones, The music of Jerome Kern and Stan Kenton.

Contributors

Presenter/Interviewer:
Alan Melville
Based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by:
Wolf Mankowitz
Interviewee:
Eartha Kitt
Performer:
Pat Kirkwood
Pianist/Interviewee:
Kay Cavendish
Performer:
Henry Kendall
Zitherist:
Anton Karas
Singers:
The Kentones
Choreography:
Paddy Stone
Orchestra directed by:
George Clouston
Designer:
Stephen Taylor
Research:
W. Macqueen-Pope
Research:
Peter Noble
Compiled by:
Ken Smith
Producer:
Bryan Sears

by Sir Walter Scott
Adapted in six instalments by Vincent Tilsley
[Starring] Maxine Audley and Robin Bailey
The action takes place at Cumnor, near Oxford; on a country road near Kenilworth; and at Kenilworth Castle
Time, 1575

Contributors

Author:
Sir Walter Scott
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Producer:
Chloe Gibson
Song composed by:
Christopher Whelen
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Wayland Smith:
Alan Edwards
Amy Robsart:
Ann Firbank
Janet:
Margaret Tyzack
Anthony Foster:
Robert Hunter
Richard Varney:
Anthony Newlands
Dr. Doboobie:
John Wood
Robert Padgett, a minstrel:
John Ford
Laurence, a juggler:
Reginald Hyde
Doll, a lute-player:
Jill Tilsley
Jack, a drummer:
John McGregor
The Giant Gatekeeper:
David Tearle
Butterworth, Usher of Kenilworth Castle:
Norman Bird
Lawrence Staples, first jailer of Kenilworth Castle:
Bruce Wightman
Edmund Tressilian:
Paul Eddington
Elizabeth I, Queen of England:
Maxine Audley
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester:
Robin Bailey
Walter Raleigh:
Stuart Hutchison
Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex:
Manning Wilson
Edmund Blount:
Howard Lamb
Other parts played by:
Bart Allison
Other parts played by:
Alec Bregonzi
Other parts played by:
Edward Brooks
Other parts played by:
David Chivers
Other parts played by:
John Foster
Other parts played by:
Desmond Newling
Other parts played by:
James Roughead
Other parts played by:
Charles Saynor
Other parts played by:
Sheila Stones
Other parts played by:
Judy Tatham
Other parts played by:
June Vivian
Other parts played by:
Esmond Webb
Other parts played by:
Hilda Campbell Russell
Other parts played by:
Jill Cary
Other parts played by:
Carol Graham
Other parts played by:
Dennis Handby
Other parts played by:
Malcolm Kerby
Other parts played by:
Eric Lloyd
Other parts played by:
Pauline Murch
Other parts played by:
Darrell Runey
Other parts played by:
Fraser White
Other parts played by:
Mildred Howard

A comedy by Eynon Evans

The action takes place in the rehearsal room of Treforgan Male Choir, in Megs Powell's parlour, and in a police station in the village of Treforgan in South Wales.

From the BBC's Welsh television studio

Contributors

Writer:
Eynon Evans
Producer:
Dafydd Gruffydd
Designer:
Douglas Smith
Moses Phillips:
Jack Walters
Dan Matthias:
Dewi Williams
Brynley, a bass:
W. H. Williams
Tom, a second tenor:
Glanffrwd James
Ben, a first bass:
Evan Morgan
Cledwyn, choir secretary:
Wyn Calvin
Police-Sgt Bowen:
Norman Wynne
Annie:
Madoline Thomas
Megs Powell:
Margaret John
The Treforgan Male Voice Choir:
The Richard Williams Choir

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