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Alan Lomax takes a look at folk music in Britain
3-From Cornwall to Yorkshire
Cornish songs, sea-shanties hobby horses, carols, Welsh ballads and songs from the Midlands sung by Ewan McColl with Peter Kennedy and Seamus Ennis
Produced by Sasha Moorsom

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Lomax
Sung By:
Ewan McColl
Unknown:
Peter Kennedy
Unknown:
Seamus Ennis
Produced By:
Sasha Moorsom

Roy Clark leads an exchange of talk about the sea and ships between
Rear-Admiral
Sir William Jameson K.B.E., C.B. ,author of Ark Royal 1931-1941 and One Wandering Albatross
William Herrington Southwold longshoreman and lifeboatman
Cecil Meadows ex-naval paymaster and ship's chandler
William Kelly keeper of Lowestoft lighthouse with sea songs old and new from Edgar Samuel
Arranged and introduced by Roy Clark
Produced by David Bryson

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Clark
Unknown:
Sir William Jameson K.B.E., C.B.
Unknown:
William Herrington Southwold
Unknown:
William Kelly
Unknown:
Edgar Samuel
Introduced By:
Roy Clark
Produced By:
David Bryson

by Arnold Bennett adapted for radio in ten episodes by Michael Black
3-' Dinner in the Restaurant '
Produced by Martyn C. Webster and David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Michael Black
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Storyteller:
Simon Lack
Gracie Savott:
Monica Grey
Sir Henry Savott:
Richard Williams
Evelyn Orcham:
Richard Hurndall
Maddix a barman:
James Thomason
Cappone, restaurant manager:
Jeffrey Segal
Nancy Penkethman:
Peggy Gow
Lord Watlington:
Ronald Baddiley
Maitre Planquet:
John Hollis
Mrs O'Riordan:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore

' Swallows and Amazons' by Arthur Ransome
Read by Derek McCulloch
3— ' Skull andCrossbonea '
5.15 Derek Blomfield in ' The Call of the Lapwing'
A story of escape and return from the Old World to the New
Written by Howard Jones
4—' The Road to the West'
Other parts played by Charles Leno and Lionel Marson
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Ransome
Read By:
Derek McCulloch
Unknown:
Derek Blomfield
Written By:
Howard Jones
Played By:
Charles Leno
Played By:
Lionel Marson
Produced By:
David Davis
Jonathan Darby:
Derek Blomfield
Eli Thakeham:
Alan Reid
Jacob Vandersyde:
Peter Bull
Hélène Trouville:
Dorothy Gordon
Florence Darby:
Yvonne Hills
Charles Trouville:
David Spenser
Captain Williams:
Leslie Perrins

Pauline Brockless (soprano)
Janet Baker (contralto)
John Cameron (baritone)
Choir of King's College,
Cambridge
Simon Preston (organ)
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by David Willcocks
From St. Nicholas Chapel.
King's Lynn

Contributors

Soprano:
Pauline Brockless
Contralto:
Janet Baker
Baritone:
John Cameron
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Leader:
James Hutcheon
Conducted By:
David Willcocks

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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