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singing TOGETHER, by William Appleby. Request programme
11.20 the WORLD OF WORK. Employer and Employee: talk by Alec Rodger , Director of the Vocational Guidance Centre. Birkbeck College, London.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. ConCOUrS. Aujourd'hui nous allons rendre visite au ' Marche aux Puces.' Ayez de quoi écrire, pour repondre a nos questions. Texte de Marcel Stellman

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby.
Talk By:
Alec Rodger
Unknown:
Marcel Stellman

BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Thunderclap Jones
Pauline Shepherd
Tom Mennard
Ronnie Carroll
Chic Murray and Maidie
Presented by Bill Worsley

Contributors

Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Unknown:
Thunderclap Jones
Unknown:
Pauline Shepherd
Unknown:
Tom Mennard
Unknown:
Ronnie Carroll
Unknown:
Chic Murray
Presented By:
Bill Worsley

' Orlando the Marmalade Cat ' from the story by Kathleen Hale told by David Davis
Illustrated with music composed by Henry Reed who conducts a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra
1-' Orlando Goes Camping '
5.30 For Older Children
Now Showing in London
A review by Eric Gillett of some of the new films and plays
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Story By:
Kathleen Hale
Told By:
David Davis
Composed By:
Henry Reed
Review By:
Eric Gillett

The action takes place in a large Italian apartment house. Time: the present.

An opera for broadcasting in one act: The Two Shy People (I Due Timidi)

Contributors

Italian text:
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Music:
Nino Rota
English version:
David Harris
Solo pianist:
Winifred Davey
Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader:
William Armon
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Repetiteur:
Vida Harford
Producer:
David Harris
The Narrator:
Arnold Matters
Mariuccia, a young pianist:
Marion Lowe
Mariuccia's mother:
Monica Sinclair
Raymond, a young man:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Madam Guidotti, owner of the Pension Guidotti:
Laelia Finneberg
Doctor Sinisgalli:
Stephen Manton
Three maids - Lucy:
Ellen Dales
Three maids - Mary:
Beryl Hall
Three maids - Lisa:
Monica Sinclair
Victor,:
the porter Ronald Evans
A Lodger at the Pension Guidotti (spoken part):
Haydn Jones

by Anthony Juan Skene adapted from
' Les Visages de I'Ombre' by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
Other parts played by Rudolf Offenbach and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Michael Bakewell

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Juan Skene
Unknown:
Pierre Boileau
Unknown:
Thomas Narcejac
Played By:
Rudolf Offenbach
Produced By:
Michael Bakewell
Richard Hammond:
James McKechnie
Christine:
Ursula Howells
David:
Simon Lack
Clem:
William Eedle
Janet:
Janette Richer
Max:
Richard Hurndall

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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