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Variations Serieuses. in D minor
Songs without Words:
No. 1. in E: No. 40, in D; No. 30. in A (Spring Song); No. 35, in B minor: No. 25, in G
Andante capriccioso and Rondo capriccioso played by Shulamith Shafir (piano)
The first of three programmes of Mendelssohn's piano music

Contributors

Unknown:
Andante Capriccioso
Unknown:
Rondo Capriccioso
Piano:
Shulamith Shafir

For Children of Most Ages
'Dreadful Doings in Ark Street'
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 Birmingham: Graham introduces
Robin Cotton (clarinet)
Accompanist, Doris Adams
From Belfast:
Cicely introduces
Matsy Maguire (soprano)
George Johnstone (accordion)
Accompanist, Havelock Nelson
From London:
Claire introduces
Jennifer Partridge (piano)
At the organ, Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Clarinet:
Robin Cotton
Accompanist:
Doris Adams
Soprano:
Matsy Maguire
Accordion:
George Johnstone
Accompanist:
Havelock Nelson
Piano:
Jennifer Partridge
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Mr Noah:
Charles Maunsell
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Porky the pig:
Ivan Samson
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson
Mr Growser:
Ralph de Rohan
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton

A play for radio by Rex Rienits
Other parts played by Scott Harrold and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by Wilfrid Grantham

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Rienits
Played By:
Scott Harrold
Produced By:
Wilfrid Grantham
Post Captain William Bligh, R N:
Trevor Martin
Narrator:
Denis McCarthy
Lord Camden:
Hugh Manning
Mary Rutland:
Beryl Calder
Lieutenant John Putland, R N:
Peter Wilde
Captain Philip King R N:
Baliol Holloway
Major George Johnston:
Hamilton Dyce
John Macarthur:
Allan McClelland
Edmund Griffin:
John Bryning
John Bowman:
Robert Sansom
Elizabeth Macarthur:
Sheila Manahan
Doctor Jamieson:
David March
Richard Atkins:
Richard Williams
William Gore:
Robert Hewitt
Captain Fenn Kemp:
Philip James
Lt -Col Joseph Foveaux:
Anthony Viccars
Lt -Col Maurice O'Connell:
Robert Mooney
Colonel Lachlan Macquarie:
Ian Sadler

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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