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'The Gingham Umbrella.' A children's radio concert party with Gordon Glenn (accordion); Roy Burgess and Desmond Briscoe (piano and drums) ; Peter Groves (comet) ; Brian Wright (xylophone and musical saw)
' Pencil and Paper' : more puzzles questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley

Contributors

Accordion:
Gordon Glenn
Accordion:
Roy Burgess
Accordion:
Desmond Briscoe
Unknown:
Peter Groves
Unknown:
Brian Wright
Unknown:
P. Caton Baddeley

featuring Jack Warner , Billy Russell , Jeanne de Casalis , and Phyllis Robins , supported by well-known Variety acts. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Max Kester. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Warner
Unknown:
Billy Russell
Unknown:
Jeanne de Casalis
Unknown:
Phyllis Robins
Unknown:
Charles Shadwell.
Script By:
Max Kester.
Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper

Music of Eric Coates : programme arranged by Gwen Williams , with Gwen Catley , Dennis Dowling , the BBC Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor, Stan-ford Robinson. Compere, F. H. Grisewood
ORCHESTRA
Westwards (Four Ways Suite)
DENNIS DOWLING A Dinder Courtship
GWEN CATLEY
Bird Songs at Eventide
ORCHESTRA
Waltz : Dance of the Orange B:ossoms
(Suite : The Jester at the Wedding)
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS Song of Loyalty
GWEN CATLEY
It was a lover and his lass
DENNIS DOWLING
I pitch my lonely caravan
ORCHESTRA
Children's Dance (Miniature Suite)
GWEN CATLEY
The Fairy Tales of Ireland
ORCHESTRA
March : Over to You

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Coates
Arranged By:
Gwen Williams
Unknown:
Gwen Catley
Unknown:
Dennis Dowling
Conductor:
Stan-Ford Robinson.
Unknown:
F. H. Grisewood

Comedy by Menander, with the gaps in the papyrus conjecturally filled by Gilbert Murray , who introduces the play. Produced by Barbara Burnham
Scene: Corinth, c. 300 B.C.: a street with two houses. Polemo's to the right, Myrrhine's to the left
The fragments of this play by the Greek dramatist were discovered in Egypt in 1907. It is pfobably the oldest comedy of manners in the world. Professor Murray's completed translation has not hitherto been either performed or published.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert Murray
Produced By:
Barbara Burnham
Philinus:
Esme Percy
Pataecus:
Felix Aylmer
The Goddess Ignorance:
Evelyn Hall
Polemo:
Martin Wilder
Sosias:
Ernest Jay
Glycera:
Peggy Ashcroft
Doris:
Nadine March
Moschio:
Alec Guinness
Myrrhine:
Martita Hunt
Habronis:
Cherry Cottrell

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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