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Part songs founded on Norwegian folk songs, sung by the BBC Men's Chorus : conductor, Leslie Woodgate. Henry Cummings (baritone)
I laid me down to slumber ; Children's Song ; Little Thora : Kvaelin's Hailing ; There is no folly half so great ; When I take a stroll : The Great White Host ; Rotnams-Knut
(Translations by Percy Grainger )

Contributors

Conductor:
Leslie Woodgate.
Baritone:
Henry Cummings
Unknown:
Percy Grainger

Adapted by Hugh Stewart from the short story and play by W. S. Maugham. Produced by Barbara Burnham
Scene : A plantation in the Malay Peninsula, and at Singapore

Contributors

Adapted By:
Hugh Stewart
Play By:
W. S. Maugham.
Produced By:
Barbara Burnham
Howard Joyce, a lawyer:
Richard Williams
Geoffrey Hammond:
Gerald Case
Leslie Crosbie:
Grizelda Hervey
Robert Crosbie:
Cyril Gardiner
Ong Chi Sing a Chinese clerk:
Laidman Browne
Chung Hi:
Alexander Samer
Mrs Joyce:
Doris Lytton

by Gwendoline Foyle. Produced by Muriel Pratt

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwendoline Foyle.
Produced By:
Muriel Pratt
The Fool:
Heron Carvic
The King:
William Trent
Story-Teller:
Lewis Stringer
Cosmo:
Derek Blomfield
The Queen:
Ann Codrington
The Prime Minister:
Charles Maunsell
The Magician:
Harry Hutchinson
First Court Lady:
Freda Falconer
Second Court Lady:
Rita Vale
The Princess:
Lucille Lisle

Isobel Baillie (soprano); Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) ;
Heddle Nash (tenor) ; Henry Cummings (baritone). BBC Chorus and BBC Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Stabat Mater dolorosa ; Quis est homo ? ; Eia. Mater ; Fac ut ardeat cor meum ; Tui Nati vulnerati ; Fac me vere tecum flere ; Virgo, virginum praeclara ; Fac ut portem Christi mortem ; Innammatus et accensus ; Quando corpus morietur

Contributors

Soprano:
Isobel Baillie
Soprano:
Kathleen Ferrier
Contralto:
Heddle Nash
Tenor:
Henry Cummings
Conducted By:
Leslie Woodgate
Conducted By:
Stabat Mater
Unknown:
Tui Nati

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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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