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Concerto in B flat (dallAbaco):
Edward Fischer and his Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No. 34, in C (K.338)
(Mozart): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Concerto grosso. for piano and string orchestra (Block); Philadelphia Chamber String Sinfonietta, conducted by Fabien Sevitzky
El Salon Mexico (Copland): Boston
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Fischer
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Fabien Sevitzky
Conducted By:
Serge Koussevitzky

'The Conjuror's Rabbit': a play by Betty Davies, with music by Alan Paul.
Produced by Josephine Plummer
Alan Paul at the piano, with a string quintet and a clarinet

'Parthenon Picture': a talk about perhaps the most famous temple in the world, by W.E. Davis ('David')

Contributors

Play By:
Betty Davies
Music By:
Alan Paul.
Produced By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Alan Paul
Unknown:
W. E. Davis
Narrator:
Lionel Gamlin
Robert:
Hedley Briggs
Peggy:
Wynne Ajello
Father Rabbit:
Norman Shelley
Mother Rabbit:
Ann Codrington
Wizard:
Frederick Burtwell
Conjuror:
Ernest Jay
Fifi:
Pat Rignold
Peggy's mother:
Freda Falconer

with Jack Train , Clarence Wright , Fred Yule , Jean Capra , Carleton Hobbs , Hugh Morton , Mary O'Farrell , Diana Morrison , and Lind Joyce. Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced by Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Jean Capra
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Hugh Morton
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Unknown:
Diana Morrison
Unknown:
Lind Joyce.
Unknown:
Charles Shadwell.
Script By:
Ted Kavanagh.
Duced By:
Francis Worsley

' This was the Cockney '
A picture of cockney life as Amy Sands , sixty-three-year-old Lambeth costermonger, remembers it, with all the gaiety and colour of the old-time Music-Hall and all the poverty and misery of the slum streets. Incidental music played by the BBC Revue Orchestra: conductor, Frank Cantell. Written and produced by Marjorie Banks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Amy Sands
Conductor:
Frank Cantell.
Produced By:
Marjorie Banks.

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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