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A ' Just So ' story by Rudyard Kipling , adapted for broadcasting by Maurice Brown. Produced by Muriel Pratt

Contributors

Story By:
Rudyard Kipling
Broadcasting By:
Maurice Brown.
Produced By:
Muriel Pratt
Teshumai:
Ann Codrington
Tegumai:
Stanley Groome
Taffy:
Patricia Hayes
Stranger Man:
Dermot Cathie
Head Chief:
Bryan Powley
Neolithic Ladies:
Josephine Shand
Neolithic Ladies:
Freda Falconer
Tribe of Tegumai ,:
Elinore Stuart
Storyteller:
Val Gieldgud

'A Voyage to Lilliput': play in two parts by C. Gordon Glover , based on Swift's famous book ' Gulliver's Travels.' Produced by May E. Jenkin (' Elizabeth '). Part 2
Lilliputians and Blefuscans played by Charles Hawtrey. Kenneth Morgan. Brian Haines , and Basil Jones
KERRISON-BOULT MUSICIANS' CUP. This was recently presented by Jan Kerrison and Sir Adrian Boult for the encouragement and development of musical talent among the Cadets of the St. John Ambulance Brigade at Home. Jan Kerrison tells you the results of the competition, and John Wills plays the winning compositions

Contributors

Unknown:
C. Gordon Glover
Unknown:
E. Jenkin
Played By:
Charles Hawtrey.
Played By:
Kenneth Morgan.
Played By:
Brian Haines
Played By:
Basil Jones
Presented By:
Jan Kerrison
Presented By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Jan Kerrison
Unknown:
John Wills
Gulliver:
Deryck Guyler
Emperor of Lilliput:
Norman Shelley
Rpldresal:
Wilfred Babbage
Admiral Bolgolam:
Basil Jones

with Syd Walker , Ernest Butcher , Miriam Ferris , Malcolm Thomas , Vera Lennox , Horace Percival. and the Four Clubmen. Music provided by a section of the Revue Orchestra. Book by Lortus Wigram. Produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe.

Contributors

Unknown:
Syd Walker
Unknown:
Ernest Butcher
Unknown:
Miriam Ferris
Unknown:
Malcolm Thomas
Unknown:
Vera Lennox
Unknown:
Horace Percival.
Book By:
Lortus Wigram.
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe.

Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
When the Roman Empire accepted Christianity the ceremony of Christmas took the place of the pagan Saturnalia, which Romans traditionally celebrated in mid-December.
This programme presents a group of typical Romans holding a Saturnalian banquet in the actual year of the birth of Christ. The intention is to show how Roman society in the early Empire was affected by the lack of those spiritual values which-Christianity was to provide

or ' The Diary of a Schoolmaster,' with Clarence Wright. Beryl Riggs, Dick Francis, Charles Hawtrey, Billy Nicholls and John Clark. The Dance Orchestra, conducted, and incidental music composed, by Stanley Black. Script by Will Hay , Max Kester. and Alick Hayes. Produced by Alick Hayes ,

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarence Wright.
Unknown:
Beryl Riggs
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Charles Hawtrey
Unknown:
Billy Nicholls
Unknown:
John Clark.
Composed By:
Stanley Black.
Script By:
Will Hay
Script By:
Max Kester.
Script By:
Alick Hayes.
Produced By:
Alick Hayes

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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