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from Basle
Max Eglin and his Orchestra
Emmi Braun (yodeller)
The Basle Folk-Song Quartet, conductor, Hans Vogt
The Basle Drum and Fife Band, conductor, Georg Duthaler

Alpine Horn Greeting
Starzersee March
Let us now yodel a little
The Cuckoo
The Wedding
Old Swiss Drummers' March
Up in the mountain by the drinking-trough
Life on the Zurich Plage
Love Song
Hunting Song
I wander up and down the country
Drum and Fife March
Milking Time
The Elly March
Alpine Horn Greeting

Contributors

Musicians:
Max Eglin and his Orchestra
Yodeller:
Emmi Braun
Singers:
The Basle Folk-Song Quartet
Conductor:
Hans Vogt
Musicians:
The Basle Drum and Fife Band
Conductor:
Georg Duthaler

Act 1 of the opera by Puccini, from Sadler's Wells Theatre
The action takes place in Lieutenant Pinkerton's house near Nagasaki, Japan

The Sadler's Wells Chorus, the Sadler's Wells Orchestra (leader, Joseph Shadwick), conductor, Lawrance Collingwood

Contributors

Singers:
The Sadler's Wells Chorus
Musicians:
The Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Leader:
Joseph Shadwick
Conductor:
Lawrance Collingwood
Producer:
John B. Gordon
Chorus Master:
Geoffrey Corbett
Lieutenant Pinkerton:
Henry Wendon
Goro (a marriage broker):
Powell Lloyd
Suzuki (servant to Cho-Cho-San):
Rose Morris
Sharpless (U.S. Consul in Nagasaki):
Arnold Matters
Madam Butterfly (Cho-Cho-San):
Jeanne Dusseau
Mother:
Rosina Tanner
Aunt:
Rose Carlton
Cousin:
Victoria Hellewell
High Commissioner:
John Greenwood
Registrar:
Frank Brooke
The Bonze (Japanese priest and uncle to Butterfly):
Harry Brindle

by Jules Romains, adapted for broadcasting by W. Farquharson Small from an English version by Harley Granville-Barker
With Robert Farquharson as Dr. Knock and Bruce Winston and Gladys Young as Dr. and Mme. Parpalaid

Contributors

Author:
Jules Romains
Adapted by/Production:
W. Farquharson Small
From an English version by:
Harley Granville-Barker
Dr. Knock:
Robert Farquharson
Dr. Parpalaid:
Bruce Winston
Mme. Parpalaid:
Gladys Young

Devised by Charles Shadwell and Harry S. Pepper
Famous artists have promised to appear (engagements permitting) at the Garrison Theatre tonight to entertain the troops
Jack (Tiny) Warner will be there
Garrison Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Lieut. Charles Shadwell (Late West Yorkshire Regiment)

Contributors

Devised by:
Charles Shadwell
Devised by:
Harry S. Pepper
Musicians:
Garrison Theatre Orchestra
Conductor:
Lieut. Charles Shadwell
Comedian:
Jack Warner
Producer:
Harry S. Pepper

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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