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' A Parrot in Command': a story by Olive Dehn , told by Norman Shelley followed by ' The House of Shadows
A new adventure of Norman and Henry Bones , the boy detectives
Written by Anthony C. Wilson
Production by Josephine Plummer

Contributors

Story By:
Olive Dehn
Told By:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Henry Bones
Written By:
Anthony C. Wilson
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Norman Bones:
Charles Hawtrey
Henry Bones:
Patricia Hayes
Dr Scott-Mason:
Richard Williams
Diana Johnson:
Olive Kirby
Johnson:
Lockwood West
Zarbo:
Alec Gunn
Arthur Desmond:
Preston Lockwood

Arthur Askey
The Western Brothers
The Five Smith Brothers
Jerry Desmond e
This week only:
Joan Hinde
Cardew Robinson
Billy Reid and Janet Gordon
Charlie Chester
The Peter Knight Singers
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by BiLl Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerry Desmond
Unknown:
Joan Hinde
Unknown:
Cardew Robinson
Unknown:
Billy Reid
Unknown:
Janet Gordon
Unknown:
Charlie Chester
Conducted By:
Paul Fenoulhet

A play for broadcasting by Barbara Burniham dramatised, from the novel "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" by R.A. Dick
[Starring] Reginald Tate and Lucille Lisle

(A revival of the production broadcast on January 21 from the BBC's West of England studios)
(BBC recording)

Mr Coombe, the estate agent at Whitecliff, was very reluctant to let Gull Cottage to the gentle, charming, newly-widowed Mrs. Muir. After her husband's death, little Lucy Muir ("small, blue-eyed and frail-looking", and married at eighteen straight from her father's vicarage) decided that she wanted to break away from her husband's strong-minded family and rent a little house by the sea. So she booked a ticket to Whitecliff.
Now Mr. Coombe had several houses on his books, and Gull Cottage was a most desirable residence, only £52 a year furnished. That was a remarkably low rent, and Lucy began to suspect that there was something wrong with Gull Cottage. Mr. Coombe obviously knew there was, and did everything he could to dissuade her from seeing it. But Lucy was firm, and when she saw it she fell hopelessly in love with it. She was particularly interested by the portrait over the sitting-room fireplace; the portrait of the late-owner of the house Captain Daniel Gregg, R.N. "The eyes are curiously alive" she said to Mr. Coombe. "I almost fancied one of them winked". And before they left the house Lucy was certain that she heard a low, sardonic chuckle. But having set her mind on renting this house Lucy would not be put off. Stephen Williams

Contributors

Author (The Ghost of Mrs Muir):
R.A. Dick
Dramatised by:
Barbara Burniham
Producer:
Owen Reed
Storyteller:
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
Lucy Muir:
Lucille Lisle
Eva, her sister-in-law:
Winifred Oughton
Martha, her servant:
Ethel Coleridge
Cyril her son:
Basil Jones
Anna, her daughter:
Hilda Schroder
Mr Coombe, a house-agent:
Charles E. Stidwill
Mr Sproule, a publisher:
Preston Lockwood
The Bishop:
Alexander Gauge
Celia, his daughter:
Kathleen Hilditch
Captain Gregg:
Reginald Tate
[Actor]:
Ellis Chesney
[Actor]:
Malcolm Farquhar
[Actress]:
Eileen Trist
[Actress]:
Hilda Chaddock
[Actor]:
Merrick Lucas
[Actress]:
Vivienne Burgess
[Actress]:
Patricia Frowd
[Actor]:
Norman Kendall

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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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