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A musical entertainment given by
The Elizabethan Singers
Conductor, Louis Halsey
Michael Dobson (oboe)
Frederick Stone (piano and harpsichord)
Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Anatole Mines (viola)
Lilly Phillips (cello)

Contributors

Singers:
The Elizabethan Singers
Conductor:
Louis Halsey
Oboe:
Michael Dobson
Piano and harpsichord:
Frederick Stone
Violin:
Margot Macgibbon
Violin:
Lorraine du Val
Viola:
Anatole Mines
Cello:
Lilly Phillips

Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
and featuring Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams
Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
(The recorded broadcast of December 16 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Written By:
Alan Simpson
Written By:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Sidney James
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Conducted By:
Wally Stott
Produced By:
Dennis Main Wilson

For Children of Most Ages
'Mr. Noah's Holiday'
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
From Bristol:
Mollie introduces
Bernard Windridge (harmonica)
From Birmingham:
Bernadette introduces
Malcolm Hobbs (boy soprano)
Accompanist, Albert Webb
and the Snibston Colliery Band Junior Sextet
Conductor, George Shilliam
From London: John introduces
Howard Blake (pianist)
At the organ, Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Bernard Windridge
Unknown:
Malcolm Hobbs
Accompanist:
Albert Webb
Conductor:
George Shilliam
Pianist:
Howard Blake
Unknown:
Charles Smart
Larry the Lambl:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Captain Higgins:
Norman Shelley
The Mayors Secretary:
Norman Shelley
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson
Mr Growser:
Ralph de Rohan
Mr Noah:
Charles Maunsell

A Cavalcade of Popular Song
(1918-1939)
with
Benny Lee , Marie Benson
The George Mitchell Choir
Narrator, Guy Kingsley Poynter
Pianist, Malcolm Lockyer
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader. Antony Gilbert )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Compiled and produced by Charles Chilton

Contributors

Unknown:
Benny Lee
Unknown:
Marie Benson
Unknown:
George Mitchell
Pianist:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Pianist:
Malcolm Lockyer
Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz

The novel by Leigh Howard
Adapted for radio by Stephen Grenfell
Characters in order of speaking:
Storyteller, Stephen Grenfell
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Novel By:
Leigh Howard
Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Elderly woman:
Barbara Shotter
Taxi-driver:
Morris Sweden
Del Monkton:
Brian Haines
Katherine:
Mary Wimbush
Constable:
Philip Levene
Sergeant:
Denis Goacher
Detective-Inspector Northam:
Peter Claughton
Detective-Sergeant Westover:
Douglas Hayes
Mr Wilkinson:
Ronald Sidney
Mis Pirie:
Elsa Palmer

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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