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The Coronets, Terry Scott
Something to Sing About
Mary Naylor
Wally Dunn
Your Favourite Musical Comedy
Helen Clare andLionelBaker
Top of the Bill Jon Pertwee
Compere, Peter Bathurst
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor; Paul Fenoulhet
Producer, Trafford Whitelock

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Scott
Unknown:
Mary Naylor
Unknown:
Wally Dunn
Unknown:
Helen Clare
Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Unknown:
Peter Bathurst
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes the following recorded items:
Film Fantasy: Johnny Brandon takes Diana Dors along ' Dreamer's High
. way,' a sketch by Ronnie Hanbury
International Film Festival at Cannes: Lilian Duff reports by special land-line from the film centre
Twenty-first anniversary of the first
British flight over Everesit : Ernie Player reminisces with Sid Bonnett , one of the cameramen who filmed this historic event
Hollywood Hook-Up: Donovan Pedelty reports from the film capital
Excerpts from a specially recorded BBC sound-track of the Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor CinemaScope production ' Prince Valiant,' starring James Mason. Janet Leigh , Robert Wagner , and Debra Paget
Script by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Unknown:
Johnny Brandon
Unknown:
Diana Dors
Unknown:
Lilian Duff
Unknown:
Sid Bonnett
Unknown:
Donovan Pedelty
Unknown:
James Mason.
Unknown:
Janet Leigh
Unknown:
Robert Wagner
Unknown:
Debra Paget
Script By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Pat Osborne

Conchita Supervia (mezzo-soprano)
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)
Forlane (Suite, Le Tombeau de
Couperin) (Ravel)
Prelude (Suite, Pour le piano)
(Debussy)
Songs:
Tonadillas (Granados) : with Frank Marshall (piano)
Dance of Terror: Ritual Fire Dance
(Love. the Magician) (Falla, arr. Rubinstein) on gramophone records

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Conchita Supervia
Piano:
Arthur Rubinstein
Piano:
Frank Marshall

Overture, Phedre (Massenet): Orchestra of the Opera Comique, Paris, conducted by Albert Wolff
Rondo BrillaM in E flat (Mendelssohn): Motira Lympany (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Merges
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel): Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Albert Wolff
Conducted By:
Rondo Brillam
Piano:
Motira Lympany
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

For Older Children
' The Golden City
Another adventure of Samuel Poppleton , Esquire by Margaret Potter
The action takes place in 1913 Production by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Poppleton
Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Old Samuel Poppleton the antique dealer:
Herbert Smith
Elizabeth:
Joyce Palin
Peter:
Geoffrey Seale
His Siamese cat:
Cleopatra
Captain John Doyle, Skipper of the Saucy Jane:
Fred Fairclough
Edwards, the First Mate:
Ernest Hawtin
Sam,a youth:
Brian Trueman
Pietro:
John Kitching
Jacob Cartland, shipowner:
Geoffrey Banks
Professor Cedric Nielsen:
Reginald Waithman
Alvaro Ramirez, in charge of the Indian labour at the City of Vilcano in the Andes:
Graham Tennant
Conrad:
Philip Waddilove

with Lind Joyce , Mary Mackenzie
Sydney Tafler , Geoffrey Sumner and John Jowebt
Orchestra conducted by Peter Akister
Written by John Jowett and Peter Jones Production by Vernon Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Lind Joyce
Unknown:
Mary MacKenzie
Unknown:
Sydney Tafler
Unknown:
Geoffrey Sumner
Conducted By:
Peter Akister
Written By:
John Jowett
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Production By:
Vernon Harris

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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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