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Conductor, Mansel Thomas
Peter Mountain (violin)
Hurlstone's Variations, the first of three orchestral works in variation form, were written in 1896, when Hurlstone was twenty. The music is characteristic and individual, despite the composer's youth, and the scoring clear and effective. Hurlstone had just achieved a considerable success with his Piano Concerto (the first broadcast performance of which was given in March this year by Patrick Piggott and the BBC Midland Light Orchestra), and the main theme of the finale of that work is introduced into the ninth variation. The last variation but one was later arranged by Hurlstone for violin and piano and pubhshed as one of the ' English Sketches.'
The Finale is an extended movement which begins with a Fugato and ends with a brilliant Coda.

Contributors

Conductor:
Mansel Thomas
Violin:
Peter Mountain
Unknown:
Patrick Piggott

'Small Ho Carries On'
A story by Colin Clemak
Told by Lionel Gamlin
'A Hand Unseen'
A new adventure of Norman and Henry Bones, the boy detectives, written for Children's Hour by Anthony C. Wilson
Produced by Josephine Plummer

Contributors

Story writer:
Colin Clemak
Story reader:
Lionel Gamlin
Produced by:
Josephine Plummer
Norman Bones:
Charles Hawtrey
Henry Bones:
Patricia Hayes
Mrs Beaumont:
Ann Codrington
Sir George Ashby:
Richard Williams
Miss Peacock:
Phoebe Hodgson
Major Harris:
Preston Lockwood
Madame Lucille:
Gladys Spencer
Susan Smith:
Tilsa Page
Police Constable Bell:
Eric Lug

by George Pleydell Bancroft
Adapted for radio by Denis Lea Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Characters in order of speaking:
(A new production of the play previously broadcast in the Light Programme in October 1948)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Pleydell Bancroft
Unknown:
Denis Lea
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Marston Gurney:
David Peel
Eustace Ede:
Anthony James
Lady Ware (Magda):
Frances Rowe
Celia Wilson:
Denise Bryer
Rate a butler:
Allan Reid
Sir Henry Egerton:
Martin Lewis
Sir Hubert Ware:
Richard Hurndall
Tommy Bold:
Harry Hutchinson
Michael Adye:
John Bentley
Judge:
Arthur Ridley
A doctor:
Bryan Powley
Attorney-General:
Philip Cunningham
Court usher:
Ronald Sidney

BBC Home Service Basic

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