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Popular favourites for the older listener sung by John Oxley (tenor) with Ruby Taylor (piano)
Dudley Savage (organ) and a chorus from the Bristol Light Opera Club
(Chorus-Master, Vernon Jones )
Introduced by Dudley Savage and based on requests collected by East Sussex Old People's
Welfare Committee

Contributors

Tenor:
John Oxley
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Chorus-Master:
Vernon Jones
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

A comedy by Nigel Balchin
Produced by Charles Lefeaux

Contributors

Comedy By:
Nigel Balchin
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
James Rice, Prime Minister, Leader of the House:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Janet Parkes, his personal secretary:
Cecile Chevreau
Roderick Simmons, an information officer:
Denis Goacber
Carol Lindsay an actress:
Avice Landon
Freda Rice the Prime Minister's sister:
Marjorie Fielding
William Boumphrey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:
Willoughby Goddard
Lewis Appleby. the Chancellor of theExchequer:
Gordon Davies
Sir Charles Proot. First Lord of the Admiralty:
Godfrey Kenton
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries:
Edgar Norfolk
The Minister of Mines:
Bryan Powley
Mr. Downes-Champney. Lord President of the Council:
Howieson Culff
Mr. Amesbury. Head of the Party Office:
Ballard Berkeley
Mr. Jones-Fullerton, the Party Chairman:
Peter Howell
Count Rudolph de Walem. Vulgarian Ambassador:
John Gabriel
Marshall, butler:
Leonard Trolley
Lord Pyne, a newspaper magnate:
George Merritt

For Children of All Ages
' The House at Pooh Corner ' by A. A. Milne arranged for broadcasting by David Davis with music by H. Fraser-Simson
2-' Tigger has Breakfast '
At 'he piano, Gwenn Knight Production by Claire Chovil
5.30 For Older Children
Now Showing in London
(and playing in Stratford-upon-Avon)
A review by Eric Gillett of some of the new films and plays
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
A. A. Milne
Broadcasting By:
David Davis
Music By:
H. Fraser-Simson
Piano:
Gwenn Knight
Production By:
Claire Chovil
Review By:
Eric Gillett
Winnie-the-Pooh:
Norman Shelley
Tigger:
Colin Gordon
Piglet:
Wilfred Babbage
Eeyore:
Geoffrey Wincott
Kanga:
Vivienne Chatterton
Christopher Robin:
Andrew Beeching
Narrator:
Charles E Stidwill

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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