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Conducted by Lieutenant Thomas Francis, Director of Music, Royal Marines

Grand March: With Honour Crowned...Ketelbey
Overture: The Sicilian Vespers...Verdi
Suite de Ballet, Mascarade: Cortege; Arlequin et Colombine; Final alla polacca - Lacome
March: The King's Colour...Barsotti
Regimental March: A Life on the Ocean Wave

Contributors

Conductor:
Lieutenant Thomas Francis

Bill-of-fare includes Marjorie Westbury, Philip Garston-Jones, Courtney Hope, and Eddie Robinson.
Music served by Jan Berenska's Rhythm Five.
Sketches by Dick Pepper.

Contributors

Performer:
Marjorie West
Performer:
Philip Garston-Jones
Performer:
Courtney Hope
Performer:
Eddie Robinson
Musicians:
Jan Berenska's Rhythm Five
Sketches by:
Dick Pepper
Producer:
Jacques Brown

Humperdinck's opera, performed by the Sadler's Wells Opera Company. Conductor, Lawrance Collingwood.
From the New Theatre, London.

Act 1: Scene 1: At home; Scene 2: In the forest
3.28 app. Interval
3.48 app. Act 2: The Witch's House

During the interval Helen Henschel talks about this afternoon's opera.

Contributors

Musicians:
Salder's Wells Opera Company
Conductor:
Lawrance Collingwood
Speaker:
Helen Henschel
Producer:
Powell Lloyd
Speaker:
Helen Henschel
Gretel:
Olive Dyer
Hansel:
Minnia Bower
Gertrude:
Kate Jackson
Peter:
John Hargreaves
The Sandman:
Olwen Price
The Dew Fairy:
Blanche Turner
The Witch:
Powell Lloyd

Play by Adrian Alington, produced by Fred O'Donovan.
[Starring] Michael Redgrave
(BBC recording)

(Michael Redgrave appears by permission of Bronson Albery and H.M. Tennent, Ltd.)

Contributors

Author:
Adrian Alington
Producer:
Fred O'Donovan
Professor Tomlinson:
Michael Redgrave
Battersby:
Richard Williams
Gloria:
Freda Falconer
Mrs Clark:
Sybil Arundale
Police Inspector:
William Trent
Policeman:
Frank Cochrane
First Voice:
Cyril Gardiner
Second Voice:
Arthur Bush
Third Voice:
Preston Lockwood

Radio version of the 20th Century Fox film starring Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, and John Payne. Radio adaptation by Rhoderick Walker. Music orchestrated by Billy Ternent.

Chorus and Augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent.
The action takes place in San Francisco at the end of the last century.
(BBC recording: previously broadcast on Wednesday, August 25)

Contributors

Adaptor:
Rhoderick Walker
Orchestrator/Conductor:
Billy Ternent
Producer:
Tom Ronald
Trudy Evans:
Dorothy Carless
John Cornell:
Gene Crowley
Beulah Clancy:
Paula Green
Dan Daly:
Sydney Keith
Bernice Croft:
Joan Young
Other parts:
Robert Duval
Story-Teller (by permission of Linnil and Dunfee):
Rhoderick Walker

Comedy adapted by Harry Graham from the German of Siegfried Geyer, adapted for broadcasting by Margaret Hawkings.

(Naunton Wayne appears by permission of Firth Shephard; Jeanne de Casilis appears by permission of Bernard Delfont)

Contributors

Author:
Siegfried Geyer
Adapted by:
Harry Graham
Adapted for broadcasting by:
Margaret Hawkings
Producer:
Hugh Stewart
The Baron:
Laidman Browne
Bastien:
Naunton Wayne
Elizabeth:
Jeanne de Casilis
The Count:
Milton Rosmer
The Countess:
Grizelda Hervey
Swinford:
Robert Rendel
Hall-Porter:
Alexander Sarner
Waiter:
Bernard Rebel

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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