Programme Index

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The Song Pedlars
Len Marten
A Note or Tico from Dot Mendoza
Freddie Sales
Something to Sing About
Tom O'Neil
Maurice Denham
Top of the Bill
The Tanner Sisters
Compere, Gene Crowley
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by John Simmonds

Contributors

Unknown:
Len Marten
Unknown:
Dot Mendoza
Unknown:
Tom O'Neil
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Gene Crowley
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Produced By:
John Simmonds

BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Ronald Biggs who also introduces the programme
2 40 FOR THE GENERAL SIXTH. Your Money and Your Life. 'Going Abroad for a Holiday,' by Professor Brinley Thomas and John Allen
30 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. 'Some Cats,' from ' Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ' by T. S. Eliot

Contributors

Leader:
Philip Whiteway
Conducted By:
Ronald Biggs
Unknown:
Professor Brinley Thomas
Unknown:
John Allen
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot

For Children of Most Ages
Said the Cat to the Dog'
A series of plays about Mompty and Peckham and the Jackson Family
Written for Children's Hour by Martin Armstrong
4 — ' Foreign Languages '
Produced by Eve Burgess
Today's play might well be called' Misunderstood Again,' for the Jackson family never seem to appreciate what Mompty and Peckham do for them, Fortunately Potts, the gardener, comes to the rescue: * You've got the wrong idea of these animals,' he says. 'You seem to think they 'aven't got as much sense as what we 'ave, but the truth ia they've got more.'
5.30 For Older Children
' Going to the Pictures and the Theatre': Eric Gillett reviews some of the plays and films now showing
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Armstrong
Produced By:
Eve Burgess
Unknown:
Eric Gillett
Mum:
Mary O'Farrel
Dad:
Wilfred Babbag(
Diana:
Rosamond Barne;
Ronnie:
Robert Scroggini
Potts, the gardener:
Ernest Seftor
Mompty the Cat:
Vivienne Chattertor
Peckham the Dog:
Stephen Jack
Narrator:
Lewis Stringei

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The clock's gone back and the nights are drawing in, but who cares, it's 'Ted Ray Time'
The old maestro presents a new series with Harold Berens, Kenneth Connor, Audrey Jeans, Don Peters, and for one night only at enormous expense to the management Fred Emney
The Beaux and the Belles
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Script by George Wadmore Ted Ray and Sid Colin
Produced by George Inns at 8.30

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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