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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 Bill Kellie and Arthur Lay Production by John BroweU

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Stapleton
Introduces:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Bert Weedon
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Unknown:
Terry Burton
Script By:
Bill Kellie
Production By:
John Broweu

A Christmas story by Charles Dickens
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced by Charles Lefeaux

Contributors

Story By:
Charles Dickens
Broadcasting By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Cobbs:
Charles Leno
Harry Walmers:
Douglas Hankin
Cousin Matilda:
Margot van Der Burgh
Mr Walmers:
Godfrey Kenton
Norah:
Judy Horn
Guard:
Will Leighton
Landlord:
Brewster Mason
Landlady:
Kathleen Helme

presenting
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert
and Bill Pertwee, Iris Villiers, Robert Moreton, Reg Darnley, Lee Lawrence, Reg Dixon
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard)
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Continuity by Eric Merriman
Production by Jacques Brown and John Kingdon

Contributors

Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Iris Villiers
Unknown:
Robert Moreton
Unknown:
Reg Darnley
Unknown:
Lee Lawrence
Unknown:
Reg Dixon
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Unknown:
Eric Merriman
Production By:
Jacques Brown
Production By:
John Kingdon

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A play for broadcasting, adapted from the novel of the same name by Gilbert and Margaret Hackforth-Jones.

[Starring] John Westbrook, Richard Hurndall, Brewster Mason and Norman Shelley

Contributors

Author:
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
Author:
Margaret Hackforth-Jones
Producer:
Audrey Cameron
Official Voice:
Malcolm Hayes
President of Board of Enquiry:
Frank Windsor
Captain Henry Turton, D.S.O.,R.N:
Malcolm Graeme
Lt-Cmdr. John Setley, D.S.C., R.N:
John Westbrook
Sub-Lieut. Jeremy Smallbones, R.N:
Charles Hodgson
Lieutenant George Butler, R.N:
John Bryning
Lieutenant Percy Wigson, R.N.R:
David Spenser
Lieutenant E. Gregson, R.N:
John Graham
Lt.-Cmdr. 'Bertie' Effingham, R.N:
Richard Hurndall
First Dockyard Worker:
Haydn Jones
Second Dockyard Worker:
Will Leighton
President of Court Martial:
John Ruddock
Deputy Judge Advocate:
Frank Partington
Admiral Sir Hartney Duncton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O:
Norman Shelley
Dr. Gilbertson:
Malcolm Hayes
Mrs. Madeleine Turton:
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Captain Geoffrey Gowthorpe, M.B.E., R.N:
Arthur Young
Kapitan Heinrich von Tahlen:
John Gabriel
Police Constable Jenvey:
William Eedle
Cmdr. 'Wally' Phipps Mangot, R.N. (Retd.):
Patrick Waddington
Ron Quantock:
Brewster Mason
George Carpenter:
Simon Lack
Mrs. Agnew:
Joan Sanderson
Daphne Crisp:
Elizabeth London
Bill Ormerod:
Charles E. Stidwill

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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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