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Coldstream Guards
West Yorkshire Regiment
The Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles)
The Border Regiment
The Loyal Regiment
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers played by the Band of the Royal Military School of Music
(by permission of the Commandant)
Conducted by Major Meredith Roberts , U.B.E.,
Director of Music with Tudor Evans (baritone)
Introduced by Lionel Marson Produced by Harry Mortimer

Contributors

Conducted By:
Major Meredith Roberts
Baritone:
Tudor Evans
Introduced By:
Lionel Marson
Produced By:
Harry Mortimer

A visit to the Headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company which overlooks the Artillery ground at Finsbury just outside the boundaries of the City of London
At Armoury House the commentators — Wynford Vaughan Thomas. Henry Riddell , Raymond Baxter , and Max Robertson —describe some of the interesting things to be seen there and give a glimpse of the training of certain of the Units which form part of the Honourable Artillery Company. including the two modern Regiments of Artillery and the picturesque Company of Pikemen and Musketeers

Contributors

Commentators:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas.
Commentators:
Henry Riddell
Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Unknown:
Max Robertson

with Kitty Bluett
Peter Sellers , Patricia Hayes
Graham Stark , Charles Leno
John Hanson , The King's Men
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby Script by Eddie Maguire ,
George Wadmore , and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns

Contributors

Unknown:
Kitty Bluett
Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Unknown:
John Hanson
Conductor:
Robert Busby
Script By:
Eddie Maguire
Script By:
George Wadmore
Produced By:
George Inns

with Wallas Eaton , The Keynotes
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby
(Jimmy Edwards is appearing in London Laughs ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London; Wallas Eaton , in ' Zip Goes a Million ' M the Palace Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Conductor:
Robert Busby
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton

Science in the Antarctic
A review by British members of the Norwegian-British-Swedish
Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52
Speakers:
G. de Q. Robin
(physicist)
E. F. Roots and A. Reece
(geologists)
C. W. J. Swithinbank
(glaciologist)
Tonight's programme gives a composite picture of the scientific investigations carried out by the members of the expedition, who returned to this country some months ago

Contributors

Unknown:
E. F. Roots
Unknown:
A. Reece
Unknown:
J. Swithinbank

BBC Home Service Basic

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