Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,500 playable programmes from the BBC

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 Botting and Bill Kellie Production by 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 Botting
Script By:
Bill Kellie
Production By:
Johnnie Stewart

' The Arkville Dragon'
A Toytown Play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 First Attempts
Young artists making their first broadcast
In Birmingham:
Peggy introduces:
Terris Henderson (boy soprano)
Joy Skerratt (piano) Pauline Scott (violin)
Beverley Manning (cello)
Accompanist. Mariegold Pickerill
In Bristol:
Mollie introduces
Michael Lovejoy (violin)
Accompanist. Kathleen Frazier
In London:
Barbara Sleigh introduces
Nancy Crisp (piano)
At the organ. Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Terris Henderson
Piano:
Joy Skerratt
Violin:
Pauline Scott
Cello:
Beverley Manning
Accompanist:
Mariegold Pickerill
Violin:
Michael Lovejoy
Accompanist:
Kathleen Frazier
Introduces:
Barbara Sleigh
Piano:
Nancy Crisp
Larrv the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Dennis the Dachshund:
Stephen Jack
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Coach Driver:
Ivan Samson
Horse:
Ivan Samson

presenting
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert
Harry Worth
Barbara Leigh
The Gaunt Brothers
Douglas Maynard
Lester Ferguson
Cyril Fletcher
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:
Harry Worth
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh
Unknown:
Douglas Maynard
Unknown:
Lester Ferguson
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Eric Merriman
Production By:
Jacques Brown

A play for radio by Lydia Ragosin
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham

Contributors

Unknown:
Lydia Ragosin
Produced By:
Wilfrid Grantham
Magellan:
James McKechnie
Sollister:
Edward Jewesbury
Cambard:
Anthony Jacobs
Mrs Magellan:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Clare:
Elizabeth London
Sylvia:
Joan Sanderson
Michael:
Glyn Dearman
Professor Cambard:
Lockwood West
Doctor:
Eric Anderson
Dr Janson:
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Philomena:
Beryl Calder
A voice:
John Bryning

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.

Appears in

About this data

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