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For Children of Most Ages
' The Wreck of the Toytown Belle'
Part 2
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 London:
Barbara Sleigh introduces Timothy Gauvain (organ) and the choir of Downside School, Purley
Conductor, Derrick Herdman
From Bristol:
Mollie introduces
Lyndon Davies (piano)
From Belfast:
Cicely introduces
Joan McFarlane
and Ian McFarlane
(two pianos)
At the organ, Charles Smart

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Timothy Gauvain
Conductor:
Derrick Herdman
Piano:
Lyndon Davies
Unknown:
Joan McFarlane
Unknown:
Ian McFarlane
Narrator6 ^mb\:
Derek McCulloch
Narr'ator ,:
Derek McCulloch
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
Ralph de Rohan
ThPetaMagitTn1:
Norman Shelley
The MagIcIan:
Norman Shelley
Peter Brass:
Ivan Samson
Letitia the Lambkin:
Sheila Moloney
Cannibal Chief:
Stephen Jack

and introduces
The BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conducted by Vic Oliver
Norman Vaughan
Harold Blackburn
Jobs I Have Held' ll-* The Driving Examiner '
Written by Johnny Speight
Sheila Mossman
' Vic in a Spot
A mystery puzzle written and introduced by Ernest Dudley
Adele Leigh
Freddie Sales
The George Mitchell Choir Continuity by Carey Edwards
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston

Contributors

Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Conducted By:
Norman Vaughan
Unknown:
Harold Blackburn
Written By:
Johnny Speight
Written By:
Sheila Mossman
Introduced By:
Ernest Dudley
Unknown:
Adele Leigh
Unknown:
Carey Edwards
Produced By:
Alastair Scott-Johnston
Candidate:
Miriam Karlin
Policeman:
Michael Bates
Examiner:
Vic Oliver
Himself:
Vie Oliver
Muir:
Michael Bates
Butter:
John Boddington
Aunt:
Una Venning

by Robin Jenkins
The novel adapted for radio by Moultrie R. Kelsall
Produced by Finlay J. Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Jenkins
Unknown:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Produced By:
Finlay J. MacDonald
Narrator Moultrie:
R Kelsall
Charles Forbes:
Leonard Maguire
Tom Curdie:
Eileen McCallum
Mr Fisher:
Harold Wightman
Mary Forbes:
Jean Faulds
Mrs Curdie:
Mary Walton
Shoogle Kemp:
James Stuart
Mr Todd:
E J P MacE
Alistair Forbes:
Paul Young
Gillian Forbes:
Effle Morrison
Mrs Storrocks:
Meg- Buchanan
Shop Assistant:
Lorna Sinclair
Librarian:
Leisie Brotchie
Peerie Whitehouse:
Roy Kinnear
Chick Mackie:
Neil Brown
Sergeant McBrayne:
John Young
A boy:
Crombie Scott

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