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Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss
Johnny Kerrison and his Samba Band
Clifford Stanton
Maple Leaf Four
George Moon
After the Intermission:
Western Brothers
Adelaide Hall
Reg Dixon
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Bill Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Warriss
Unknown:
Johnny Kerrison
Unknown:
Clifford Stanton
Unknown:
George Moon
Conducted By:
Paul Fenoulhet
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

by Ian Hay
Adapted for radio by Peggy Wells

[Starring] Jack Hulbert

The boys call him The Moke, and as his name is Charles Donkin we can quite easily follow this train of thought in the schoolboy mind. He is an elderly housemaster at one of our best public schools and a confirmed bachelor. His bachelorhood was confirmed many years ago when the only girl he really loved turned him down in favour of a wayward and erratic artist. She has now been dead fourteen years. Her young son is a member of Donkin's house and her three daughters are with their father in Paris, but under the care of a strong-minded aunt. At least they were in Paris, but within a few minutes of the opening of the play they are honking their motor horn in the quadrangle of the school. Their aunt has decided that Parisian life is not good for them (whether Paris is demoralising them or they are demoralising Paris is apparently a moot point) and she has decided to plant them for a time on their 'joint godfather.' That is how she explains the matter, tersely, concisely, and unanswerably, to the unfortunate Charles. Can we imagine the effect these sweet. wild, unmanageable young things have on a strictly disciplined boys' school, ruled by a strictly disciplinary headmaster? Well, we can have a try; but the actual results are far funnier than our imagination can encompass.
(Stephen Williams)

Saturday-Night Theatre at 9.15

Contributors

Author:
Ian Hay
Adapted by:
Peggy Wells
Production:
Martyn C. Webster
The masters of Marbledown School - The Reverend Edmund Ovington:
Malcolm Hayes
The masters of Marbledown School - Charles Donkin:
Jack Hulbert
The masters of Marbledown School - Victor Beamish:
Hamilton Dyce
The masters of Marbledown School - Frank Hastings:
Stanley Groome
The masters of Marbledown School - Philip de Pourville:
Desmond Oarrington
The boys - Bimbo:
Jeremy Spenser
The boys - Old Crump:
James E Thompson
The boys - Pop:
David Spenser
The boys - Travers:
Archie Angus
The boys - Flossie Nightingale:
Michael Holt
Barbara Fane:
Gladys Spencer
Her three nieces - Rosemary:
Marjorie Westbury
Her three nieces - Chris:
Ursula Hirst
Her three nieces - Button:
Beryl Calder
Sir Berkeley Nightingale:
Martin Lewis
Matron:
Susan Richards
Ellen:
Dorothy Smith

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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