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at Newmarket
The Newmarket Stakes
A race for three-year-olds, run over a distance of one mile and a quarter.
Commentary by Peter O'SuIIevan from the Grand Stand, and by Harry Middleton , assisted by Roger Mortimer as race-reader, from a point down the course
From Newmarket Heath

Contributors

Commentary By:
Peter O'Suiievan
Unknown:
Harry Middleton
Assisted By:
Roger Mortimer

by Gyles Adams
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Michael Bakewell

Contributors

Unknown:
Gyles Adams
Produced By:
Michael Bakewell
Bessie Wilson:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Harry Clayton:
Simon Lack
Jack Wilson:
Norman Wynne
Lucie Clayton:
Beth Boyd
Goryn:
Peter Neil
Police Sgt Hanney:
Brewster Mason
Policeman:
Jeffrey Segal

from Peterborough Cathedral
Sentence. Confession, Absolution, the Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses (
Thomas Morley )
Psalms 82. 83, 84, 85
First Lesson: Judges 13
Magnificat (Charles Wood in F;
Collegium Regale)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 10, vv. 1-18 Nunc dimittis (Charles Wood in F;
Collegium Regale)
Creed. Suffrages, Collects
Anthem: God omnipotent reigneth
(Charles Wood)
Prayers
The Grace
Master of the Music, Stanley Vann assisted by Malcolm Cousins

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Morley
Unknown:
Charles Wood
Unknown:
Charles Wood
Music:
Stanley Vann
Assisted By:
Malcolm Cousins

For Older Listeners
' Merlin's Magic * by Helen Clare adapted as a play for broadcasting in four parts by Nan Macdonald
4 -' The Drum and the Sword '
Production by Herbert Smith
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. J. Fraser McLuskey , M.C.

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Clare
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Unknown:
Rev. J. Fraser McLuskey
Merlin:
David Markham
Peregrine Carey:
Jeffrey Denton
Miranda, his twin:
Susan Froggatt
Linet:
Jane Knowles
Edward:
Grahame Pratt
Mark Howard:
Peter Harvey
James Howard:
Jeremy Bradbury
Mercury:
Geoffrey Banks
The Hippogriff:
Fred Fairclough
Sir Walter Ralegh:
George Hagan
Neptune:
Tom Harrison
Nimal:
Rosalie Williams
Marco Polo:
Desmond Carrington
The Great Kaan Kublai:
Norman Shelley
Armourer:
Frank Poynter
Falconer:
Norman Somers

A melodrama for broadcasting based on Homer's Odyssey by Edward Sackville-West with Stephen Murray , Lydia Sherwood Leon Quartermaine , Jeffrey Segal
Music composed by Benjamin Britten
Singing Parts: mourners and naiads sung by the Ambrosian Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by John Hollingsworth
Production by Val Gielgud
PART 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Sackville-West
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Lydia Sherwood
Unknown:
Leon Quartermaine
Unknown:
Jeffrey Segal
Composed By:
Benjamin Britten
Conducted By:
John Hollingsworth
Production By:
Val Gielgud
Phemius:
Leon Quartermaine
Mentor:
Brewster Mason
Eurymachus:
Edward Jewesbury
Halitherses:
Norman Wynne
His wife:
Ella Milne
Machaon:
Frank Partington
Callidice:
Annette Kelly
Irus:
Jeffrey Segal
Leodes:
Philip Ingram
Penelope:
Lydia Sherwood
Eurynome:
Judy Bailey
Telemachus:
Denis Goacher
Euryclea:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Coxswain:
Trevor Martin
First sailor:
Harry Hutchinson
Second sailor:
Bruce Stewart
Third sailor:
Gordon Davies
Odysseus:
Stephen Murray
Eumaeus:
Norman Wynne
Antinous:
Trevor Martin
Peisander:
Bruce Stewart
Agelaus:
Brian Oulton
Amphinomus:
Leonard Trolley
Leocritus:
Eric Francis
Otesippus:
Gordon Davies
Eurydamas:
Frank Partington
Noemon:
Arthur Ridley
Medon:
Charles Maunsell
Meianthius:
Peter Neil
Alastor:
Humphrey Morton
Athene:
Marion Berry-Hart
Athene:
Beryl Hatt
Apollo:
Ranken Bushby
Hermea:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Artemis:
Nancy Thomas

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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