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Singing Together: Request Week
by William Appleby.

11.20 The World of Work: First Days at Work
A talk by Alec Rodger, Director of the Vocational Guidance Centre, Birkbeck College, London.
(BBC recording)

11.40 Intermediate French: Les trois messes basses
dramatisation du conte d'AIphonse Daudet.
Texte de Guy Millot.
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter/singer (Singing Together):
William Appleby.
Speaker (The World of Work):
Alec Rodger

by John Collier.
dramatised by Donald McWhinnie.
[Starring] Alec McCowen with Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley

(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 24)

Contributors

Author:
John Collier
Dramatised by:
Donald McWhinnie
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Willoughby:
Alec McCowen
The Guardian Angel:
Carleton Hobbs
Lord Ollebeare:
Norman Shelley
Lord Stumber:
Hamilton Dyce
Lady Stumber:
Joan Matheson
George Corbo:
Malcolm Graeme
Bucknell:
George Merritt
Louise:
Hilda Schroder
Dr. Whately:
Jeffrey Segal
Lucy Langton:
Beryl Calder
Mr. Langton:
Rolf Lefebvre
Frances:
June Tobin
Hendred:
John Cazabon
Other characters:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

Robert Irwin introduces Music to Remember
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conductor, George Hurst
Before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Manchester.
(Next week: BBC Midland Orchestra, conducted by Meredith Davies, with Suzanne Rossa (violin) from the Music Hall, Shrewsbury)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Irwin
Musicians:
The BBC Northern Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Reginald Stead
Conductor:
George Hurst

with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray
(BBC recording)

(Peter Sellers is in "Brouhaha" at the Aldwych Theatre, London; Harry Secombe in "Large as Life" at the London Palladium)
Repeated on Wednesday at 9.30 (Light)

Contributors

Comedian:
Peter Sellers
Comedian:
Harry Secombe
Comedian/Script:
Spike Milligan
Musicians:
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Harmonicist:
Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by:
Wally Stott
Announcer:
Wallace Greenslade
Producer:
John Browell

A radio version of his original play by Charles Lloyd-Jones.
[Starring] Ernest Clark and June Tobin

(Jack May broadcasts by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust, Ltd.)
(Repeated on Monday, Dec. 8, at 3.0)

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Lloyd-Jones
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Thornton Blore:
Hugh Manning
Henry Blake:
Ernest Clark
Shirley:
June Tobin
Denis Etta:
Reginald Jessup
Ryden Voyce:
Jack May
Harmony Blake:
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

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