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' Matilda Gives a Party': another story about Matilda Mouse, by Dora Broome , told by Wilfred followed by ' The Good Little Christmas Tree '
Ursula Moray Williams
Adapted by Olive Dehn
Produced by Nan Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Dora Broome
Unknown:
Ursula Moray Williams
Adapted By:
Olive Dehn
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald
Storyteller:
David Markham
Michael:
Peter Broadbent
Anna:
Margaret Grassby
Their father:
Fred Fairclough
Their mother:
Joan Sharp
A goblin:
Jimmy Miller
The fisherboy:
Billie Whitelaw
The little girl:
Joyce Palin
Her grandfather:
Frank Crosland
The pedlar:
John Broadbent
Baby Angel:
Doris Gambell
St Nicholas:
Robert Marsden
The Christmas Tree:
Herbert Smith

National and seasonal music Introduced by Frank Gillard
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
From Belfast, Bristol. and Birmingham, from Cardiff and Manchester, Scotland and Newcastle, the microphone brings some of the rich variety of festive dances, songs, and marches that gladden the United Kingdom at Christmas. Singers and instrumentalists. bands and choirs, unite in a swiftly changing medley, which includes Scottish pipers, a Welsh harpist, and massed flute bands from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Introduced By:
Frank Gillard
Produced By:
Desmond Hawkins

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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