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Today's king pin of comedy played the Knave of Hearts in the Lyceum pantomime of 1938-1939. He was heard in an outside broadcast from the theatre, and the previous year he was on the air in a scene from the Lyceum pantomime of 1937-1938, Beauty and the Beast.
Albert Burdon was born at South Shields and started life as a juggler. In course of time he introduced comedy into his act, and gradually juggling became a thing of the past and the art of getting laughs, at which he is a master, a thing of the present and the future.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Wilfred Pickles
Produced By:
Richard North

This series takes you to the famous music-hall where, from 1930 to 1940, the musical director was
Sydney Kaplan who will talk about and play records of some of the hundreds of well-known artists who have played there Sydney Kaplan , who now brings to a close his present series of memories of the Holborn Empire, met every top-liner during his ten years there. He has one dramatic memory. He saw the trapeze artist, Charles Warren , miss his heel catch one night and crash on top of the piano, within inches of his head. Fortu-' nately Warren was not badly hurt and is performing to this day.
Kaplan was at one time musical director of the Old London Music-Hall, Shoreditch, a famous try-out house. Max Miller , the Houston Sisters, and almost everyone who is a big name today made his or her London bow there.
Elsit and Doris Waters are god-mothers to his little boy Lionel David , nicknamed Bingo, now aged eight. In 1937, at the age of four, he played the Butcher Boy in the Harlequinade in Where the Rainbow Ends.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sydney Kaplan
Unknown:
Sydney Kaplan
Artist:
Charles Warren
Unknown:
Max Miller
Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Lionel David

Directed by Victor Silvester
The second in a new series of programmes. Each week Victor Silvester will give you a ten-minute dancing lesson. Victor Silvester and his Orchestra will then play dance music for thirty minutes to enable you to practise the steps you have just learned.
Presented by David Miller

Contributors

Directed By:
Victor Silvester
Unknown:
Victor Silvester
Unknown:
Victor Silvester
Presented By:
David Miller

A weekly show written by Ted Kavanagh with Doris Hare
Paula Green
Ian Sadler
Bettie Bucknelle
Alan Paul and Ivor Dennis
The Orchestra and Male Voice
Quartet
Conducted by Sam Rogers
Produced by Vernon Harris

Contributors

Written By:
Ted Kavanagh
Unknown:
Doris Hare
Unknown:
Paula Green
Unknown:
Ian Sadler
Unknown:
Bettie Bucknelle
Unknown:
Alan Paul
Unknown:
Ivor Dennis
Conducted By:
Sam Rogers
Produced By:
Vernon Harris

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More