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A comedy for radio by Derek Walker
Four characters in flight from an author!
Other parts played bv members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Both plays produced by Betty Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Walker
Produced By:
Betty Davies
The Author:
Douglas Storm
Savage:
Eric Anderson
Mary:
Fiona Nicholson
Hawthorn:
Wilfred Babbage
Rodney Granite:
John Humphry

Spring in the Air and to celebrate this
Elena Fisher and Millicent Jones play two-piano duets
Henry Douglas Home talks about
April bird song in Scotland and lpts you hear recordings made at his bird sanctuary and The Anniesland Junior Singers invite you to join them in singing games
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
5.25 For Older Listeners
' The Sinister Hoard by Robert J. Hoare
Adapted as a serial in six instalments by Nan Macdonald
6-' Operation Welder'
(Continued in next column)
. Production by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Elena Fisher
Unknown:
Millicent Jones
Unknown:
Henry Douglas
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Unknown:
Robert J. Hoare
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Graham Roberts of the Evening Globe:
Noel Johnson
Cecil' Chick ' Wainhouse:
Barrie Hesketh
Schwartz, a mountain guide:
David Crane
Werner, another guide:
Geoffrey Banks
Baron von Swartrop:
Graham Tennant
Police Sergeant:
Tom Harrison
Mr Taylor:
Ralph Hallett
Bill Corrigan:
John Broadbent
Mike, the storyteller:
Brian Trueman

and introduces
Variety Playhouse Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conducted by Vic Oliver
Pocket Theatre starring Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert
Written by Gavin Blakeney
To sing for you:
Diana Rees , Marie Collier
John Larsen
The George Mitchell Choir
To make you laugh:
Bob Andrews , Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Home
Incidental music by Philip Martell
At the organ, William Davies Continuity by Carey Edwards
Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston

Contributors

Leader:
John Jezard
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Written By:
Gavin Blakeney
Unknown:
Diana Rees
Unknown:
Marie Collier
Unknown:
John Larsen
Unknown:
George Mitchell
Unknown:
Bob Andrews
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Music By:
Philip Martell
Unknown:
William Davies
Unknown:
Carey Edwards
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised for radio by Lance Sieveking
Music by John Hotchkis
Production by Raymond Raikes Characters in order of speaking:
Other parts played by: Cecile Chevreau , Belle Chrystall
Geoffrey Hodson. Geoffrey Lumsden
Molly Rankin
The Scene: London, 1883 and 1884

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Music By:
John Hotchkis
Production By:
Raymond Raikes
Played By:
Cecile Chevreau
Played By:
Belle Chrystall
Played By:
Geoffrey Hodson.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lumsden
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Richard Enfield, the well-known man about town:
Gordon Davies
Mrs Williams:
Molly Rankin
Bessie, her daughter:
Cecile Chevreau
Mr Edward Hyde:
Cyril Shaps
Mr Utterson, Dr Jekyll's lawyer:
Richard Williams
Dr Hastie Lanyon, Dr Jekyll's old friend:
Manning Wilson
Poole, Dr Jekyll's butler:
James Thomason
Dr Henry Jekyll:
Cyril Shaps
Sister Bathurst, the matron of a children's hospital:
Belle Chrystall
Police Inspector Newcomen of Scot land Yard:
George Merritt
A housemaid:
Mairhi Russell
Mr Guest, Mr Utterson's head clerk:
Simon Lack
Keable, Dr Lanyon's butler:
Geoffrey Lumsden

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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