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ENSA show for war-workers, introduced by Bryan Michie. Jack Simp son and his Sextet, with Betty Kent ; Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders with Harry Brooker ; Kealoha-Life and Leslie Douglas. Guest artist, Esther Coleman

Contributors

Duced By:
Bryan Michie.
Duced By:
Jack Simp
Unknown:
Betty Kent
Unknown:
Felix Mendelssohn
Unknown:
Harry Brooker
Unknown:
Leslie Douglas.
Artist:
Esther Coleman

with Joe Linnane , Josie Day. Jim Jonson , Jean Woods , Charles Wilkins , Gwyndolyn Stewart , Harold Goldblatt , Mary Johnston , George Beggs. the Colenso Quartet, and David Curry 's Irish Rhythms. Script by Harry O'Donovan. Produced by James Mageean and Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Linnane
Unknown:
Jim Jonson
Unknown:
Jean Woods
Unknown:
Charles Wilkins
Unknown:
Gwyndolyn Stewart
Unknown:
Harold Goldblatt
Unknown:
Mary Johnston
Unknown:
George Beggs.
Unknown:
David Curry
Script By:
Harry O'Donovan.
Produced By:
James Mageean
Produced By:
Francis Worsley

Play with music by Kurt Weill , book by Moss Hart , and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Special choral and orchestral arrangements by Jack Beaver. Radio adaptation by Rhoderick Walker. Produced by Tom Ronald
BBC Revue Chorus and the Revue Orchestra, under the direction of Charles Groves
Gertrude Lawrence plays the original part she created in the New York stage production of ' Lady in the Dark.' (The radio yersion of the play is adapted from the Paramount film starring Ginger Rogers : Ray Milland , Jon Hall , and Warner Baxter.)

Contributors

Music By:
Kurt Weill
Book By:
Moss Hart
Unknown:
Ira Gershwin.
Arrangements By:
Jack Beaver.
Unknown:
Rhoderick Walker.
Produced By:
Tom Ronald
Unknown:
Charles Groves
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Unknown:
Ginger Rogers
Unknown:
Ray Milland
Unknown:
Jon Hall
Liza Elliott:
Gertrude Lawrence
Charles Johnson:
Leslie Bradley
Maggie Grant:
Joan Young
Randy Curtis:
Gene Crowley
Russell Paxton:
Tommy Duggan
Kendall Nesbitt:
Clifford Buckton
Allison Dubois:
Mavis Villiers
Miss Forster:
Olivia Burleigh
Maitha:
Doris Rogers
Dr Brooks:
Hartley Power

Special number of ' Country Magazine.' Songs arranged by Francis Collinson , sung by Cyril Tucker and John Irwin , and played by the Wynford Reynolds Sextet. Programme introduced by Ralph Wightman
Listeners hear the voices of Ollie Knight (farm worker), Essex ; H. Parkinson (market gardener), Lancashire; Harry Rogers (river man), Shropshire; Albert Thomas (butler), Brasenose College, Oxford; Margaret Dixon (Timber Corps). Shropshire ; Ted Ashwell (miller), Suffolk ; Raymond Bush (fruit expert). Surrey ; Jack Pearson (woodman), Northumberland ; Prof. G. R. Clarke (soil scientist), Oxfordshire ; Eric Eaton (handyman), Gloucestershire ; Maud Wheeler (farmer's daughter), Dorsetshire ; Reg. Johnson (saddler), Oxfordshire ; R. D. * Railton (schoolmaster), Cumberland ; R. D. Peck (angler), London ; Reginald Arkell (author), Gloucestershire ; A. G. Street (farmer), Wiltshire

Contributors

Arranged By:
Francis Collinson
Sung By:
Cyril Tucker
Sung By:
John Irwin
Introduced By:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
Harry Rogers
Unknown:
Albert Thomas
Unknown:
Margaret Dixon
Unknown:
Ted Ashwell
Unknown:
Raymond Bush
Unknown:
Jack Pearson
Unknown:
G. R. Clarke
Unknown:
Eric Eaton
Unknown:
Maud Wheeler
Unknown:
R. D. Peck
Unknown:
Reginald Arkell
Unknown:
A. G. Street

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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