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Al Read turns life round to show us the funny side and introduces some friends from the world of music along with The Allegros and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Produced by Ronnie Taylor
(The recorded broadcast of September 29, 1958, in the Light Programme)

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Conducted By:
Alyn Ainsworth
Produced By:
Ronnie Taylor

A new radio play by Blair Main characters in order of speaking :
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
A satirical comedy concerning the effect of a huge Pools win on a village football club.

Contributors

Play By:
Blair Main
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Benedict Bland:
Anthony Viccars
John Nobbut:
Harold Young
Charlie Stickpin:
John Scott
George Deepwell:
Ronald Baddiley
The Rev Stephen Prime:
Rolf Lefebvre
Mrs Prime:
Sylvia Coleridge
Alf Willard:
John Hollis
Jerry Younger:
Peter Wilde
Ted Pennystuck:
James Thomason
Mrs Mabel Pennystuck:
Ella Milne
The Bishop of Havering:
Frank Windsor
Miss Cash:
Sheila Grant
Mrs Poppett:
Sheila Manahan
Mrs Deepwell:
Betty Baskcomb

and introduces
The BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conducted by Vic Oliver
Billy Burden
Edgar Evans
' Jobs I Have Held'
13— ' The Sales Representative'
Written by Johnny Speight
The George Mitchell Choir
' Vic in a Spot'
A mystery puzzle introduced by Ernest Dudley
Jeanette Sinclair
Ted Ray
Continuity by Carey Edwards
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston

Contributors

Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Conducted By:
Billy Burden
Conducted By:
Edgar Evans
Written By:
Johnny Speight
Introduced By:
Ernest Dudley
Introduced By:
Jeanette Sinclair
Introduced By:
Ted Ray
Produced By:
Alastair Scott-Johnston
Sales Representative:
Vic Oliver
Telephone Operator:
Liz Fraser
Maisie:
Vanda Vale
Foreign Woman:
Patricia Hayes
Mary:
Patricia Hayes
Foreign Husband:
Michael Bates
Bert:
Michael Bates
Fred:
Ronnie Barker
American:
Ronnie Barker
Policeman:
Tenniel Evans

The novel by D. L. Murray adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Main characters in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Charles Lefeaux

Contributors

Novel By:
D. L. Murray
Adapted By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Oliver Fawkes:
Baliol Holloway
Mrs Woodrofe:
Hilda Schroder
Mark Woodrofe:
Nicholas Stevenson
Fancy Fawkes:
Geraldine McEwan
Sergeant Trant:
Colin Douglas
Wilfred Pargeter (Lord Blackwater):
David Peel
Mr de Burgh:
Michael Graham
Colonel Pauloff:
Malcolm Hayes
Trumpet-Major:
Ronald Baddiley
Lord Cardigan:
David March
Captain Wetherby:
Harold Reese
Captain Townley:
Denis Goacher
Mr Meiklejohn:
George Hagan
Mrs Vulliamy:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mr Niblick:
John Hollis

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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