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Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Clifton Helliwell (piano)
(BBC recording)

Vaughan Williams's three Vocalises were written in March this year for Margaret Ritchie and first performed at the first two concerts of this year's Halle season in Manchester. A Vocalise is literally a 'song without words'.

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Ritchie
Clarinetist:
Gervase de Peyer
Pianist:
Clifton Helliwell

Memories of thirty years of sound films.
Interviews with Sir Michael Balcon, Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle.
Speech and music from films of the last three decades.
Including the voices of: John Boles, Ernest Borgnine, Marlon Brando, Jack Buchanan, Charles Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Bing Crosby. Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich, Donald Duck, Jimmy Durante, Deanna Durbin, Nelson Eddy, Judy Garland, Alec Guinness, Juanita Hall, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Al Jolson, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Jeanette MacDonald, Anna Magnani, Jessie Matthews, Marilyn Monroe, Anna Neagle, Laurence Olivier, Shirley Ross, Frank Sinatra, Richard Tauber, Shirley Temple, Mae West
Compiled and introduced by Gordon Gow.
(Recording)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Sir Michael Balcon
Interviewee:
Herbert Wilcox
Interviewee:
Anna Neagle
Compiled and introduced by:
Gordon Gow
Producer:
Alfred Dunning

The novel by Andrew Garve.
adapted by Eileen Cullen.
[Starring] Geoffrey Keen and Gordon Jackson
(Last Saturday's recorded broadcast)

Contributors

Author:
Andrew Garve
Adapted by:
Eileen Cullen
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Miss Timmins, Editor's secretary:
Sylvia Coleridge
Edgar Jessop, Assistant Foreign Editor:
Frank Windsor
Bill Iredale, a Foreign Correspondent:
Gordon Jackson
Nicholas Ede, the Editor:
Richard Hurndall
Katherine Camden, a reporter:
June Tobin
Sheila Brooks, a reporter:
Beryl Calder
Joe Hind News Editor:
John Bennett
Lionel Cardew, Diplomatic Correspondent:
Richard Bebb
Dawson Munro, Governor of the Outward Islands:
Howieson Culff
Chief Inspector Haines, of Scotland Yard:
Geoffrey Keen
Inspector Ogilvie, of Scotland Yard:
Duncan McIntyre
Dr. Mather, Police Surgeon:
James Thomason
Miss Hewson, Catering Manageress:
Sheila Grant
Arthur Pringle, a crime reporter:
Frederick Treves
Sarge,the Commissionaire:
Peter Claughton
Henry Jackson, Assistant Editor:
Godfrey Kenton
Mrs. Little:
Ella Milne
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

A gallery of portraits in close-up.

Philosopher, theologian, and musiclan-a great European who has spent most of his life ministering to the sick in Africa-as seen chiefly through the eyes of those who have worked with him there.
Introduced by Wyn Knowles.

(BBC recording)
Repeated on Tuesday at 11.30 a.m.

Contributors

Presenter:
Wyn Knowles
Producer:
Laurence Gilliam

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)
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

by Peter Ustinov.
Adapted for radio by Robin Midgley.
Guitar played by George Elliott
Music for the songs composed by Antony Hopkins for the original stage play

(BBC recording)
See page 5

Contributors

Author:
Peter Ustinov
Adapted for radio by:
Robin Midgley
Guitarist:
George Elliott
Music for the songs composed by:
Antony Hopkins
Producer:
Robin Midgley
First soldier:
Robert Crewdson
Second soldier:
Raymond Cooke
The General:
James Bree
Hooper Moulsworth:
Peter Hutton
Vadim Romanoff:
Norman Scace
Igor Romanoff:
Bernard Brown
Juliet:
Pamela Strong
The Spy:
Gareth Davies
Beulah Moulsworth:
Hazel Vincent Wallace
Evdokia Romanoff:
Barbara Bolton
Junior Captain Marfa Zlotochienko:
Louida Vaughan
Freddie Vanderstutt:
Derek Martinus
The Archbishop:
Roy Brown

BBC Home Service Basic

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