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from a canteen at Belvedere, Kent
with The Keynotes, Laurie Johns, Georgia Brown, Johnny Lockwood
James Moody (piano) Bert Weedon (guitar) Max Abrams (drums)
Presented by Bill Gates
(Johnny Lockwood is appearing in Variety at the Empire Theatre, Finsbury Park)

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Guitar:
Bert Weedon
Guitar:
Max Abrams
Presented By:
Bill Gates
Presented By:
Johnny Lockwood

Talk by the Ven. E. Aldington-Hunt Archdeacon Emeritus of Matabelelend Last week Dr. Webb, a South African Methodist, spoke about the good in the working of the Bantu Education Act. Dr. Aldington-Hunt has different views about race relations, and he expresses them with his special background in the Central African Federation.
(BBC recording)

by Kay Cicellis
The Storyteller
Howard Marion-Crawford
Elvira Gorgorini Fay Compton
Kitso Battistato..Anthony Jacobs
Marino Debonera Richard Wordsworth
Napoleon Bourdouvano Francis de Woolf
Father Russello Laurence Payne
Rubma Bonanou Nan Marriott-Watson
Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens and conducted by Edward Clark, Produced by Peter Duval Smith

On August 11 and 12, 1953, the town of Lixouri, in Cephalonia, was entirety destroyed by the earthquake that devas­tated the Ionian islands of Greece. Three months later Kay Cicellis revisited the town where she had spent her childhood. 'The Death of a Town' is her imagined impression of the catastrophe and its aftermath told in the recollections of six of the survivors.

(A new production of the prog first broadcast in the Third Programme on January 18, 1954)
(BBC recording)

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