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From the Neald Hall, Chippenham, with Margaret Eaves , Peter Brough and ' Archie Andrews ,' and Melville Christie and his Dance Orchestra, with Bob Howard. Introduced by Elsie Otley. Produced by Hamilton Kennedy

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Eaves
Unknown:
Peter Brough
Unknown:
Archie Andrews
Unknown:
Bob Howard.
Introduced By:
Elsie Otley.
Produced By:
Hamilton Kennedy

' The Black Arrow,' a story of the Wars of the Roses, by Robert Louis Stevenson , adapted by David Close-Thomas . Produced by Nan Macdonald. Part 2—' The
Moat House '

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted By:
David Close-Thomas
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald.
Dick Shetton:
Charles Mason
Sir Daniel Brackley:
Hugh Morton
Jack Matcham:
Jenny Lovelace
Sir Oliver Oates:
John Wardle
Bennet Hatch:
Herbert Smith
Goodv Hatch:
Norma Wilson
Will Lawless:
Fred Fairclough
Throgmorton:
William Price
Messenger:
John Broadbent
Narrator:
David Markham

Fairy story of a London bus in wartime. Book and lyrics by Henrik Ege. Music by Henry Reed. Produced by Vernon Harris
Mortals
Machines
Chorus and augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Alan Crooks

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Ege.
Music By:
Henry Reed.
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Conducted By:
Alan Crooks
Mr Blatherwick:
Dick Francis
Mr Brooks:
Fred Yule
Bert:
Clarence Wright
Red motor buses: Mabel:
Binnie Hale
Red motor buses: Noreen:
Phoebe Hodgson
Red motor buses: Aunt Maggie:
Mabel Constanduros
Green motor coaches: Gertrude:
Diana Morrison
Green motor coaches: Rosamond:
Noele Gordon
John a farm tractor:
Dick Dudley
Josiah the vicar's two-seater:
Carleton Hobbs

2— ' The Months of Building'
A BBC-New York production, written by Merrill Denison and produced by Roy Lockwood , with music specially composed and conducted by Alexander Semmler
In the first of these programmes on the war in the Far East. broadcast on July 5. the story was told of the Japanese avalanche which in less than four months swept to the outer defences of Australia. Tonight's programme recalls the critical, period during which the Allied forces checked the Japanese advance and began to build up the bases and ' supply lines on which ultimate victory depends.

Contributors

Written By:
Merrill Denison
Produced By:
Roy Lockwood
Conducted By:
Alexander Semmler

Shakespeare's two chronicle-plays arranged for broadcasting in eight episodes by Robert Gittings. Music composed and conducted by Herbert Menges. Produced by John Burrell
Episode Seven

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Gittings.
Conducted By:
Herbert Menges.
Produced By:
John Burrell
Sir Pierce of Exton, the Chronicler:
Laurence Olivier
King Henry IV:
Nicholas Hannen
Warwick:
David Kentish
Shallow:
Harcourt Williams
Silence:
Charles Leno
Bardolph:
Michael Raghan
Falstaff:
Ralph Richardson
Mouldy:
George Rose
Shadow:
Michael Hitchman
Wart:
Weyman- MacKay
Feeble:
David Kentish
Bullcalf:
Humphrey Heathcote
Prince John:
Robin Lloyd
Archbishop:
Michael Hitchman
Mowbrav:
Humphrey Heathcote
Hastings:
Sydney Tafler
Westmoreland:
Mark Dignam
Coleville:
Esmond Knight

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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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