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Meeting-place in the heart of London for Britain's gallant Allies from Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Russia. Men and women from occupied Europe, who have risked their lives to reach Great _ Britain in order to fight and work in the- cause of freedom, dance to a Continental orchestra, sing their national songs, and tell stories of their amazing war-time adventures in interviews with their host and hostess, Leo de Pokorney and Joan Clark. Continental Orchestra under the direction of Lionel Falkman. Devised and produced by C. F. Meehan

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo de Pokorney
Unknown:
Joan Clark.
Unknown:
Lionel Falkman.
Produced By:
C. F. Meehan

Comic opera by Frederic Smetana. Libretto by Karl Sabina. English version by Rosa Newmarch. Produced by Stanford Robinson and Mark H. Lubbock
In commemoration of the Czechoslovakian National Day
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra: conductor, Stanford Robinson
The scene is laid in a Bohemian village on the afternoon and evening of the Patron Saint's day. The action takes place dunng the first half of the-ninetcenth century.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederic Smetana.
Unknown:
Karl Sabina.
Unknown:
Rosa Newmarch.
Unknown:
Mark H. Lubbock
Krusina:
William Parsons
Ludmilla ,:
Mary Jarred
Marenka:
Lorely Dyer
Mica:
Owen Brannigan
Hata:
Gladys Parr
Vasek:
Powell Lloyd
Jenik:
Jan van Der Gucht
Kecal:
Norman Lumsden
Narrator:
Dennis Arundell

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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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