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Overture : The Barber of Seville
Euphonium solo : Largo al factotum
(Soloist, David Morris )
Ballet Music : William Tell
Cornet solo : Una voce poco fa
1. (Soloist, Harry Mortimer )
Selection of Rossini's Music played by the Foden's Motor Works Band : conductor, Fred Mortimer

Contributors

Soloist:
David Morris
Unknown:
William Tell
Soloist:
Harry Mortimer
Conductor:
Fred Mortimer

2.0 TRAVEL TALKS. By Boat from Shanghai to Chungking,' by Lai Po Kan
2.15 Interval music
2.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin. Programme d'actualité ou il sera question de quelques evenements de nos jours
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH 1. Serial :
Scenes from ' Les Miserables ,' by Victor Hugo , adapted by Rhoda Power. Part 2—' Jean Valjean and Cosette '

Contributors

Unknown:
Lai Po Kan
Unknown:
Jean-Jacques OBErlin.
Unknown:
Les Miserables
Unknown:
Victor Hugo
Adapted By:
Rhoda Power.
Unknown:
Jean Valjean

5.20 ' The Outlaws of Engelwood': play by Mamie Griffiths about Will of Cloudeslee, the Robin Hood of Carlisle. Produced by Nan Macdonald
5.50 app. Songs by the Choir of the Kents Bank Road Senior Boys' School, Buxton

Contributors

Play By:
Mamie Griffiths
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald
Will of Cloudeslee:
Wilfred Pickles
Adam Bell:
Fred Fairclough
Clym o' the Cleugh:
John Broadbent
Alice, Will's wife:
Joan Sharp
His children : Alan:
Maurice Foster
His children : John ::
Donald Candlin
Meg, an old woman:
Joan Littlewood
The Sheriff of Carlisle:
Frederick Wilson
A Citizen:
Archie Thomson
A Swineherd:
Arthur Bentley
A Warder:
William Waterhouse

by William Shakespeare. Arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon. Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Characters in order of speaking

Contributors

Unknown:
William Shakespeare.
Broadcasting By:
Herbert Farjeon.
Produced By:
Mary Hope
Chorus:
Robert Speaight
Sampson:
Charles Lamb
Gregory:
Norman Shelley
Abraham:
Arthur Young
Benvolio:
Philip Cunningham
Tybalt:
John Laurie
Capulet:
George Howe
Lady Capulet:
Sybil Arundale
Montague:
Stanley Lathbury
Lady Montague:
Mary Barton
Prince Escalus:
Leslie Perrins
Romeo:
David King-Wood
Paris:
Lewis Stringer
Peter:
Felix Irwin-
Nurse:
Edith Evans
Juliet:
Fay Compton
Mercutio:
Marius Goring
Friar Laurence:
Morland Graham
Balthasar:
David Peel
Apothecary:
Alexander Sarner
Friar John:
Preston Lockwood
Page to Paris:
John Gilpin

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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