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Jack Leon and his Orchestra
Jack Leon , whose orchestra broadcast for the first time on April 9 last year, was a child refugee from Belgium during the last war and is now a British subject. He has done such varied things in the world of music as conducting the Guild-hall Orchestra for folk dancing in Hyde Park, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra for ballet, and conducting two separate bands daily at the Prince of Wales Theatre for upwards of seven years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Leon
Unknown:
Jack Leon

with Murray and Mooney as the Touts (George Grabbit and Dan Droppit ), Dick Francis as Mr. Bid-good, I.O.U., the auctioneer, BBC Revue Chorus and BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Dick Pepper. Produced by Ernest Longstaffe

Contributors

Unknown:
George Grabbit
Unknown:
Dan Droppit
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell.
Script By:
Dick Pepper.
Produced By:
Ernest Longstaffe

BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard), conductor, Sir Adrian Boult.
Moura Lympany (piano)

Moura Lympany and Orchestra

Aram Khachaturian, born at Tiflis in 1903, is one of the leading composers in Soviet Russia. His Piano Concerto, written in 1936, is based on Armenian folk songs. It was given its first performance in England last year at a concert of the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of Great Britain and the U.S.S.R., with Moura Lympany as the soloist.

Orchestra

From a concert-hall in the South

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult
Piano:
Moura Lympany

Revival of the adaptation by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham

The scene is laid in modern China.

Narration and production by Lance Sieveking

Contributors

From the novel by:
W. Somerset Maugham
Adapted by:
Mabel Constanduros
Adapted by:
Howard Agg
Narrator/Production:
Lance Sieveking
Kitty Fane:
Grizelda Hervey
Walter Fane:
James McKechnie
Charles Townsend:
Heron Carvic
Waddington:
Martin Walker
Sister St Joseph:
Gladys Young
The Mother Superior:
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Kou-Chou:
Frank Cochrane
Townsend's Secretary:
Maxine Audley

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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