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Singing Together
by William Appleby

11.20 How Things Began: 7: The People of Windmill Hill
Script by Jacquetta Hawkes.

11.40 Intermediate French: Papa au secours!
Monsieur Levaux saute dans sa voiture pour repondre a l'appel au secours de Marie-Madeleine.
Texte d'Emile Harven

Contributors

Presenter (Singing Together):
William Appleby
Script (How Things Began):
Jacquetta Hawkes
Script (Intermediate French):
Emile Harven

For the Younger Ones
' The Adventures of Galldora': a story by Modwena Sedgwick , told by David
2—' Galldora's
Christmas Present' followed by Children's Hour
Music in Miniature
5.30 Coronation Review of the Fleet
The Fly-Past by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, including squadrons of Canadian and Australian Naval aircraft
Commentators :
Richard Dimbleby in H.M.S. Vanguard
Raymond Baxter in a Gannet taking part in the Fly-Past
5.45 app. Some gramophone records to end the programme

Contributors

Story By:
Modwena Sedgwick
Unknown:
Richard Dimbleby
Unknown:
Raymond Baxter

A radio comedy by Ian Stuart Black
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Archie Campbell
The scene of the action is somewhere, perhaps almost anywhere, along the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, in the Count's luxurious summer chalet set exquisitely among the vineyards and mountains, where there is nothing to disturb the peace except the war. It is not a large war, but it is, none the less, an important business to the assorted officers of the revolutionary forces who have commandeered the chalet to prepare an ambush.
The Count and Countess are old-world aristocrats who accept the inconvenience with reluctance and disdain, regarding their unwelcome house-guests as more revolting than revolutionary. They deplore the plan to dynamite the bridge down the road. on the ground that it not only is an offence against civilisation and culture but will make an appalling mess of the garden and countryside. There is also the consideration that the benign and elderly General in command of the oncoming Government troops is a distant but well-loved cousin. And while these questions are engagingly debated, the Count's daughter is falling in love with the revolutionary leader.
There are situations and themes here such as Bernard Shaw , in his time, might well have chosen for satirical illumination, and, in fact, some occasional evidence of the sprightly Shavian influence is perceptible in Mr. Black's work.
Kenneth A. Hurren

Contributors

Comedy By:
Ian Stuart Black
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Kenneth A. Hurren
Antony:
John Gabriel
Major:
Michael O'Halloran
Lt Operator:
Malcolm Hayres
Countess:
Fabia Drake
Count:
Dennis Arundel
Lt Frederick:
Peter Bartlett
General Bryant:
William Fox
Celia:
Gillian Andrews
General Zeeland:
Carieton Hobbs
Soldier:
Aubrey Richards

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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