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The Royal Variety Performance
On BBC Television tonight from 7.25 to 10.25
Once a year show business puts on its own show - in aid of its own needy members. Top-line artists, representing all fields of entertainment on both sides of the Atlantic, gather to perform in the greatest Variety show of the year. This year's Royal Variety Perforamnce, which took place on October 29, was recorded on the stage of the London Palladium, and tonight you can watch its unforgettable spectacle. During the afternoon the Light Programme will broadcast sixty minutes of the show's highlights.
(Jointly presented by Bernard Delfont and Leslie A. Macdonnell, O.B.E., in association with Arthur Scott, Secretary of the Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund)
At the London Palladium
in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen
and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh
Artists taking part include:
Edie Adams, Black and White Minstrel Show, Rudy Cardenas, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra, Dickie Henderson, Bob Hope, Frank Ifield, Eartha Kitt, Cleo Laine, Palladiums Boys and Girls, The Great Magyar Pusztai Troupe, Cliff Richard, Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra, Harry Secombe, The Shadows, Andy Stewart, Eric Sykes, Sophie Tucker, Norman Vaughan, Mike and Bernie Winters
(Norman Vaughan, Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra appear by arrangement with ATV)
In the interval at 9.0 app there will be a brief News Bulletin
In the Light Programme from 4.0 to 5.0
Brian Johnston introduces an hour's edited recording