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Ted Ray introduces Variety Playhouse
with Variety Playhouse Pocket Theatre
Written by Jeremy Bullmore.
Starring Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert

Nidge of the News
A saga of Fleet Street.
With Ted Ray, Ronnie Barker, Patricia Hayes.

The George Mitchell Choir
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert)
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ted Ray
Writer (Variety Playhouse Pocket Theatre):
Jeremy Bullmore
[Actress]:
Cicely Courtneidge
[Actor]:
Jack Hulbert
[Actor] (Nidge of the News):
Ted Ray
[Actor] (Nidge of the News):
Ronnie Barker
[Actress] (Nidge of the News):
Patricia Hayes
Guest:
Billy Burden
Guest:
Bruce Trent
Guest:
Monia Liter
Guest:
Cyril Fletcher
Guest:
Diane Dubarry
Singers:
The George Mitchell Choir
Musicians:
BBC Revue Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Continuity and press sketch:
Terry Nation
Continuity and press sketch:
John Junkin
Producer:
Alastair Scott-Johnston

by Bill Naughton.
[Starring] Frances Cuka, Frederick Treves and Betty Linton

(BBC recording)
See page 4

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Naughton
Producer:
R.D. Smith
Governor:
Frederick Treves
Ruth:
Frances Cuka
Chief Officer Mooney:
Betty Linton
Chief Officer Jenkins:
Peter Claughton
Officer Stone:
Joyce Latham
Mrs. Bunn:
June Wenner
Medical Orderly:
Sheila Grant
Ada:
Molly Lawson
Officer Preston:
Sibell Gill
Blondie:
Norma Griffin
Fielding:
Keith Smith
Adams:
John Hollis
Tillotson:
Leigh Crutchley
Prison Doctor:
John Bryning
Mrs. Lawrence:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mr. Lawrence:
Ronald Baddiley
Officer Lenegan:
George Merritt
Other parts played by:
David Fallon
Other parts played by:
Eva Huszar
Other parts played by:
Anthony Viccars
Other parts played by:
Henry Webb

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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