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Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band
Graham Stark does his best to misdirect it
David Jacobs introduces
The Stargazers
Harold Smart, Bert Weedon
Dennis Wilson
The Show Band Singers and Terry Burton
Script by Charles Hart
Bernard Bolting and Bill Kellie Production hv Johnnie Stewart

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Stapleton
Introduces:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Bert Weedon
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Unknown:
Terry Burton
Script By:
Charles Hart
Script By:
Bernard Bolting
Script By:
Bill Kellie
Unknown:
Johnnie Stewart

A short story by Rosemary Timperley
Adapted as a radio play by Peggy Wells
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Story By:
Rosemary Timperley
Play By:
Peggy Wells
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Miss Grey:
Beryl Calder
Prefect:
Sheila Eves
Miss Bowling:
Catherine Salkeld
Miss Carruthers:
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Miss Denby:
Georgina Waite
Alice:
Olive Kirby
Doris:
Luanne Kemp
Mrs Cromer:
Betty Baskcomb
Tamara:
Judy Horn
Miss Avery:
Rosamund Greenwood
A child:
Sulwen Morgan

For Children of All Ages
' How Wireless Came to Toytown '
A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
First Attempts
Young artists making their first broadcast
In Bangor:
Evelyn introduces
Jean Jones
(folk song and penillion singer)
Accompanist, Maimie Noel Jones )
In Manfhester:
Trevor introduces
Mary Pilling (flute)
Accompanied by Nancy Harris
In London:
Barbara Sleigh introduces Jack Cornwell (baritone)
Nina Whitehurst and Caroline Butcher
(violin and piano)
At the organ, Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Jean Jones
Accompanist:
Maimie Noel Jones
Flute:
Mary Pilling
Accompanied By:
Nancy Harris
Introduces:
Barbara Sleigh
Baritone:
Jack Cornwell
Baritone:
Nina Whitehurst
Violin:
Caroline Butcher
Unknown:
Charles Smart
Larry the Lamb}:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
The Mayor of Toy town:
Felix Felton
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Dennis the Dachshund:
Ernest Jay
Mr Growser:
Ralph de Rohan
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson

presenting
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert and John Blythe Edna savage
Peter Kent
Arnie Kitson
Bruce Trent
Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss
The Peter Knight Singers
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Continuity by Eric Merriman Production by Jacques Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
John Blythe Edna
Unknown:
Peter Kent
Unknown:
Arnie Kitson
Unknown:
Bruce Trent
Unknown:
Jimmy Jewel
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Unknown:
Eric Merriman
Production By:
Jacques Brown

by Compton Mackenzie
Adapted for radio by Moray McLaren
Other parts played by Neil Brown. Ian Catford
Iain Cuthbertson. Ian Gilmour
Andrew MacAllister , James MacKenzie
Philip McCall , and Gerard Slevin
Bobby MacLeod (accordion)
Pipe-Major John Macdonald (bagpipes)
Produced by Finlay J. Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Compton MacKenzie
Radio By:
Moray McLaren
Played By:
Neil Brown. Ian Catford
Played By:
Iain Cuthbertson.
Unknown:
Ian Gilmour
Unknown:
Andrew MacAllister
Unknown:
James MacKenzie
Unknown:
Philip McCall
Unknown:
Gerard Slevin
Accordion:
Bobby MacLeod
Accordion:
Pipe-Major John MacDonald
Produced By:
Finlay J. MacDonald
The Storyteller:
Moray McLaren
Joseph Macroon:
Harold Wightman
Roderick Macrurie:
Alex MacKenzie
Sergeant-Major Alfred Odd:
Malcolm Tiayes
Peigi Macroon:
Jean Anderson
Mrs Campbell:
Meg Buchanan
George Campbell:
Bryden Murdoch
Father James Macallister:
Ian Sadler
Duncan Macroon:
Tom Smith
Captain Paul Waggett:
Donald Layne-Smith
Mrs Waggett:
Lorna Tarbat
Colonel Lindsay Wolseley:
Evan Thomas
Catriona Macleod:
Effle Morrison
Captain George Stewart:
Derek Walker
Mrs Odd:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More