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(' Before the Eisteddfod '-a discussion in Welsh)
Er na chynhelir yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol eleni fel arfer, fe fedrwyd trefnu i'r genedl gael darnau helaeth ohoni yn rhaglenni'r BBC. Fe ddarlledir y rheiny yr wythnos nesaf, a heno, wythnos cyn y 'Steddfod, cawn hanesion am rai o Eisteddfodau'r gorffennol y bu cor enwog. Ystalyfera yn cystadlu ynddynt. Y siaradwyr fydd W. D. Clee, arweinydd y Cor, a'r Parchedig Ivor Jones , sydd wedi bod yn aelod o'r Cor ers blynyddoedd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Parchedig Ivor Jones

5.20 The Adventures of Pinocchio ', adapted from Collodi's famous story by Barbara Sleigh
No. 2-' Golden Guineas ' with Patricia Hayes , Mirren Wood , Audrey Cameron , Laidman Browne , Philip Wade , Geoffrey Wincott ,
Betty Astell

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Mirren Wood
Unknown:
Audrey Cameron
Unknown:
Laidman Browne
Unknown:
Philip Wade
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wincott
Unknown:
Betty Astell

Part 4-' Tragedy at the hunting-lodge ' and also servants, huntsmen, etc.
A serial play for broadcasting in ten parts, adapted by Hugh Stewart from the novel by Anthony Hope
Produced by Peter Creswell

Contributors

Adapted By:
Hugh Stewart
Novel By:
Anthony Hope
Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Rupert of Hentzau:
Charles Mason
Count Fritz von Tarlenheim (who tells the story):
Ronald Simpson
Helga von Tarlenheim:
Betty Hardy
Mother Holt:
Ethel Lodge
Colonel Sapt:
Frederick Lloyd
Lieutenant Bernenstein:
William Hutchison
Queen Flavia of Ruritania:
Edana Romney
King Rudolf:
Sebastian Shaw

Jack Buchanan in a radio version of his famous film
(by permission of Paramount Pictures) with Maggie Teyte
Music and lyrics by Whiting, Harling, and Robin. Radio score by Jack Beaver
The cast includes :
Gibb McLaughlin , Arthur Pusey , Hugh French , Ewart Scott , Jacques Brown , Joan Young , Vera Lennox ,
Olwen Brookes
Chorus and orchestra conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Douglas Moodie

Contributors

Unknown:
Maggie Teyte
Unknown:
Jack Beaver
Unknown:
Gibb McLaughlin
Unknown:
Arthur Pusey
Unknown:
Hugh French
Unknown:
Ewart Scott
Unknown:
Jacques Brown
Unknown:
Joan Young
Unknown:
Vera Lennox
Unknown:
Olwen Brookes
Conducted By:
Hyam Greenbaum
Produced By:
Douglas Moodie

(Section C), led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult The Fairy Queen is an anonymous adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in which Purcell showed his independent spirit by not setting one word of the original Shakespeare to music. It was produced in 1692 but the score was lost in 1700 and despite a reward of twenty pounds for its discovery it remained lost until it was rather embarrassingly found in 1901 in the library of the Royal Academy of Music.

Contributors

Conductor:
Marie Wilson
Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult

A shortened version for broadcasting of a Yorkshire farcical comedy by J. B. Priestley
The action takes place in the sitting-room of Alderman Helliwell's house in Clecklewyke, a town in the West Riding, on an evening about thirty years ago
Produced by Barbara Burnham

There was never a play more saturated with genuine West Riding character than this comedy by a great West Riding playwright. Three local worthies, pillars \ of the local chapel, one an alderman, another a town councillor, all of them aggressively plain-spoken and unconsciously funny, celebrate with their spouses twenty-one years of marriage, and suddenly discover they have never been married at all!
The situation may be farcical, but the people and their reactions are real enough, as anyone who lived in the West Riding thirty years ago will delightedly testify. In Ormonroyd, the drunken Press photographer, Priestley (who played the part at the outset of the successful London run) has created a rare clown in the true Falstaff tradition.

Contributors

Comedy By:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Alderman Helliwell
Produced By:
Barbara Burnham
Ruby Birtle:
Betty Jardine
Gerald Forbes:
Ronald Kerr
Mrs Northrop:
Beatrice Varley
Nancy Holmes:
Beryl Laverick
Henry Ormonroyd:
Arthur Young
Alderman Joseph Helliwell:
William Heilbronn
Maria Helliwell:
Muriel George
Councillor Albert Parker:
Carleton Hobbs
Herbert Soppitt:
Ernest Butcher
Clara Soppitt:
Viola Lyel
Annie Parker:
Eileen Beldon
Lottie Grady:
Vivienne Chatterton
Rev Clement Mercer:
Norman Wooland

Almost a Revue
(No. 1 of a new series)
Book by Peter Dion Titheradge , Arthur Marshall , and J. Pennethorne Hughes. Music by Ronnie Hill and Geoffrey Wright with Dorothy Carless , Edward Cooper , Charles Heslop , Ronnie Hill , Gwen Lewis , Hugh Morton ,
Clarence Wright
At the pianos, Ivor Dennis and Alan Paul
Produced by Reginald Smith

Contributors

Book By:
Peter Dion Titheradge
Book By:
Arthur Marshall
Book By:
J. Pennethorne
Music By:
Ronnie Hill
Music By:
Geoffrey Wright
Unknown:
Dorothy Carless
Unknown:
Edward Cooper
Unknown:
Charles Heslop
Unknown:
Ronnie Hill
Unknown:
Gwen Lewis
Unknown:
Hugh Morton
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Pianos:
Ivor Dennis
Pianos:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
Reginald Smith

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