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Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band with Graham Stark , David Jacobs
The Stargazers
Harold Smart, Bert Weedon
Dennis Wilson
The Show Band Singers
Terry Burton and today's surprising guest
Johnny Gray
Script by Bill Kellie and Arthur Lay
Production by John Browell

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Stapleton
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Bert Weedon
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Singers:
Terry Burton
Unknown:
Johnny Gray
Script By:
Bill Kellie
Unknown:
Arthur Lay
Production By:
John Browell

Double Bill
'ONE-MAN JURY' by Michael Brett
2.25 app. THE GIRL
WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ' by Charles Hatton
(Continued in next column)
Plays produced by David H. Godfrey
(s)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Brett
Unknown:
Charles Hatton
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Police Sergeant:
Owen Fellowes
Nurse:
Catherine Nangle
Harry Legge:
John Bryning
John Mace:
Hugh Manning
Waitress:
Kathleen Helme
Charles:
Lockwood West
Mrs Mace:
Kathleen Helme
Hotel clerk:
John Ruddock
Motorist:
John Ruddock
Police Conslable:
David Spenser
Winnie Digby:
June Tobin
Mr Fry:
Hugh Manning
Fred Digby:
David Spenser
Mrs Digby:
Kathleen Helme
Mr Digby:
John Ruddock
Withers:
Will Leighton
Reporter:
John Crocker
Harold:
Trevor Martin
Mr Piggott:
Donald Bisset
Mr Salter:
Lockwood West
Boyman:
Donald Bisset
Sheila Brandon:
Monica Bell

Regional Variations (4)

Cricket. Further commentary.

BBC Home Service West

Midland Counties Women's Amateur Athletic Association Championship: finals.

BBC Home Service Midland

Cricket: further commentary. Motor Cycling: ' Cock o' the North ' Races. Bowls: Derby v. Yorks. Reading Amateur Regatta.

BBC Home Service North

Reading Amateur Regatta
Commentaries from a launch following the crews; from a point down the course; and from the finishing line
Commentators: John Snagge
Raymond Glendenning
Brian Venner

Contributors

Commentators:
John Snagge
Unknown:
Raymond Glendenning
Unknown:
Brian Venner

« Golf
(Toytown Rules)
A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
First Attempts
Young artists making their first broadcast
In Cardiff
Teleri Phillips introduces Veronica Drake (soprano)
Myra Lewis (piano)
Accompanist. Mary Kendall
In Manchester
Trevor introduces
Howard Ball (violin)
Accompanist, Mabel Hardy
In London
Barbara Sleigh introduces
Tony Price (singer)
At the organ: Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Josephine Plummer
Soprano:
Veronica Drake
Piano:
Myra Lewis
Accompanist:
Mary Kendall
Violin:
Howard Ball
Accompanist:
Mabel Hardy
Singer:
Tony Price
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Mr Growser:
Ralph de Rohan
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Captain higgians:
Norman Shelley
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
The Inventorl:
Ivan Samson
The Porter ,:
Van Amson

Regional Variations (7)

As West.

BBC Home Service Welsh

News.

BBC Home Service North

News; sports report.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Sports results.

BBC Home Service West

News, sport.

BBC Home Service Midland

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Sports Session
The day's sport reviewed in results, reports, and summaries, for listeners in South-East England
Today's programme includes:
6.15 Racing Results
6.30 app. Cricket
The latest scores of all first-class fixtures, and brief reports and comments on selected matches concerning South-Eastern counties
Golf
Reports by Pat Ward-Thomas on the final day of the English Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Moortown, and by Tom Scott on the Daks Professional Tournament at Wentworth
Athletics
A report by Harold Abrahams on the highlights of the Kinnaird Trophy meeting at Chiswick
Sports Forum
Comments on topics of the moment by leading sportsmen, administrators, and journalists
Introduced by Jacob de Vries

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Ward-Thomas
Unknown:
Tom Scott
Unknown:
Harold Abrahams
Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries

presenting Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert
David Hurst
Brendan O'Dowda
George Meaton
Tommy Reilly
Adele Leigh
Richard Murdoch
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:
David Hurst
Unknown:
Brendan O'Dowda
Unknown:
George Meaton
Unknown:
Tommy Reilly
Unknown:
Adele Leigh
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Leader:
John Jezard
Unknown:
Eric Merriman
Production By:
Jacques Brown
Production By:
John Kingdon

The novel by Margery Allingham
Adapted as a radio play by Felix Felton and Susan Ashman
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Novel By:
Margery Allingham
Play By:
Felix Felton
Play By:
Susan Ashman
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Val St John Gyrth:
David Spenser
Lugg:
Brewster Mason
Albert Campion:
Richard Hurndall
Mrs Dick Shannon:
Mary Wimbush
Penny Gyrth:
Annette Kelly
Beth Cairey:
June Tobin
Dr Cobden:
Lockwood West
Major King:
John Graham
Horace Putnam:
William Eedle
Colonel Gyrth:
Eric Anderson
' Fingers ' Hawkins:
Will Leighton
Israel Melchizadek:
Haydn Jones
Professor Cairey:
James Dyrenforth
Old Peck:
Trevor Martin
Percy Peck:
Michael Ashwin
Sammy Munsey:
Geoffrey Matthews
Mrs Munsey:
Kathleen Helme
The Visitor:
John Ruddock

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.

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