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Today's Bill
Overture: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Augmented
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Theatre: Betty Miller
Variety: Leslie Sarony
Radio: Cherry Lind
TV: The Ray Ellington Quartet
Late Extra
Produced by David Miller
(Betty Miller is appearing in Variety at the Gaumont Cinema, Cheltenham)

Contributors

Leader:
George Deason
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Unknown:
Betty Miller
Unknown:
Leslie Sarony
Produced By:
David Miller
Produced By:
Betty Miller

Plot the Spot : Figure it Out
Two new panel games devised and compiled by John P. Wynn
The Panel:
Hubert Gregg , Charmian Innes
Fred Cooke , Audrey Russell
Chairman, Michael Miles
Programme produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Hubert Gregg
Unknown:
Charmian Innes
Unknown:
Fred Cooke
Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Michael Miles
Produced By:
Joan Clark

by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Dramatised for broadcasting in seven episodes by Max Kester
7—' The End-and the Beginning'
Produced by Archie Campbell
(The recorded broadcast of July 19. 1954. in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Max Kester
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Narrator:
John Ruddock
Sir Henry Peverel:
Reginald Tate
Catherine:
Victoria Hopper
Sarah:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mrs Carter:
Ann Codrington
Dr Pickard:
Edgar Norfolk
Willy Palliser:
Kim Peacock
Nurse:
Catherine Salkeld
Peel:
John Gabriel
Dennis Lane-Belfour:
Rolf Lefebvre
Hetty, Catherine'sdresser:
Janet Burnell
Callboy:
Cyril Shaps
Bartlett:
John Ruddock
'Philo ':
Godfrey Kenton
' Guard ':
George Hagan
' Charmian ' ':
Catherine Salkeld

For Older Listeners
* Dangerous Waters *
A story in six parts by Jack Cox
1—' Death of a Yacht'
Reader, Basil Jones
Jack Cox writes on page 21
5.15 Musical Interlude followed by 'The Adventures of Deadline Donovan '
A serial play by W. B. Macmillan and Harold Ballantyne
1-' The Mystery of the Missing
Orchid '
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Cox
Play By:
W. B. MacMillan
Play By:
Harold Ballantyne
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Charlie Currie, liftman in the Mercury office:
Leonard Maguire
Visitors to the newspaper office: Girl:
Effie Morrison
Visitors to the newspaper office: Boy:
Gordon MacDonald
J B Tweed, the Editor:
Douglas Robin
Steve Murray, a reporter:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Deadline Donovan, the Mercury copy-boy:
John Carlin
ColonelLeatherby-Brand:
Leonard Maguire
Mrs Leatherby-Brand (Hortense):
Rita Black
Children of Drumtorlie village: Pat:
Margaret Love
Children of Drumtorlie village: Moira:
Lesley Fraser
Children of Drumtorlie village: Billy:
Effie Morrison
Telephone operator:
Lesley Fraser
Police-Sergeant Duncan McGrath:
David Webster

entertains you with his friends the stars of show business
This week's guests:
Peter Butterworth and Brian Marber with Vanessa Lee , Pat Coombs David Jacobs , and the Coronets
And presenting Hubert Gregg and his ' Songs About London '
7—' Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner'
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Music arrangements by Bob Sharpies
Written by Charles Hart and Bernard Botting
Edited by Gale Pedrick Produced by Roy Speer

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Butterworth
Unknown:
Brian Marber
Unknown:
Vanessa Lee
Unknown:
Pat Coombs
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Hubert Gregg
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Arrangements By:
Bob Sharpies
Written By:
Charles Hart
Written By:
Bernard Botting
Edited By:
Gale Pedrick
Produced By:
Roy Speer

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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