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by Tony Quinn
Tony Quinn , the Irish actor, is a member of the Society for Army Historical Research and has what is believed to be the largest collection in the world of hand-painted model soldiers of the British Army. He talks about the practical side of his hobby-the paints and materials and cleaning processes involved.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Quinn
Unknown:
Tony Quinn

Piano music in contrasting styles played by Ross Pratt
(concert pianist)
Mary Peppin and Geraldine Peppin
(two pianos)
Laurie Gray
(Latin-American music)
The Ralph Dollimore Quartet
(rhythmic piano music)
Introduced by Alan Dell
Produced by Jimmy Grant

Contributors

Played By:
Ross Pratt
Pianist:
Mary Peppin
Pianist:
Geraldine Peppin
Pianos:
Laurie Gray
Introduced By:
Alan Dell
Produced By:
Jimmy Grant

A novel by Cyril Hare adapted for broadcasting by Morven Cameron
Other parts played by Barbara Greenhalgh and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by Wilfrid Grantham

Contributors

Novel By:
Cyril Hare
Played By:
Barbara Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Wilfrid Grantham
Francis Pettigrew:
Carleton Hobbs
Horace Wendon:
Garard Green
Godfrey:
Wilfrid Downing
Jesse Todman:
Robert Sansom
Humphrey Rose:
Philip Leaver
Superintendent Trimble:
Arthur Young
Sergeant Broome:
Philip Cunningham
Mrs Pink:
Betty Hardy
Mrs Ransome:
Janet Burnell
Mrs Pettigrew:
Joan Matheson

For Children of Most Ages
Said the Cat to the Dog'
A series of plays about Mompty and Peckham and the Jackson family by Martin Armstrong
6 — ' The Cat and Dog Show '
Production by Claire Chovil
If the Jackson family had thought about it quietly (but I don't suppose they could, because, as usual, Dad was talking so much), they would probably have realised that something extraordinary was bound to happen if they entered Mompty and Peckham for a Cat and Dog Show.
5.30 For Older Children
Music Room
A series of monthly talks edited and introduced by Jo
Music at Random with Helen Henschel
2 — ' Great Tunes are Simple
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Production By:
Claire Chovil
Mum:
Mary O'Farrell
Dad:
Wilfred Babbage
Diana:
Rosamond Barnes
Ronnie:
Sam Jephcott
Mrs Ferguson:
Ann Codrington
Sir Thomas Jeake:
Laidman Browne
Mr Blyth-Jones:
Richard George
Mompty the Cat:
Vivienne Chatterton
Peckham the Dog:
Stephen Jack
Narrator:
Lewis Stringer

Frederick Grinke (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Mozart
Overture: The Seraglio
Theme. Variations, and Rondo (Serenade in B flat) (K.361)
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for violin, viola, .nd orchestra (K.364)
Symphony No. 38. in D (K.504)
(Prague) From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Contributors

Violin:
Frederick Grinke
Viola:
Frederick Riddle
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

by C. P. Snow dramatised for radio by E. J. King Bull
Produced by R. D. Smith Cast in order of speaking: The action takes place in a Cambridge college in the late nineteen-thirties

Contributors

Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Lewis Eliot:
John Phillips
Dr Paul Jago the Senior Tutor:
Geoffrey Lumsden
Bidwell:
Haydn Jones
The Master:
Godfrey Kenton
Chrystal the Dean:
Edward Burnham
Winslow, the Bursar:
Geoffrey Wincott
Arthur Brown, the Junior Tutor:
Maurice Denham
Gay the Senior Fellow:
Baliol Holloway
Roy Calvert:
Robert Gladwell
Nightingale:
T St John Barry
Francis Getliffe, the Steward:
John Richmond
Sir Horace Timberlake:
George Merritt
Dr Crawford:
Frederick Treves
Despard-Smith the Deputy Master:
John Boddington
Luke:
Frank Windsor
Eustace Pilbrow:
Maurice Colbourne

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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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