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Nina Epton , Joyce Dunsheath , and Katherine Sim exchange experiences of their travels from Morocco to the Himalayas and Malaya to tthe Caucasus
In the chair, Stewart Wavell
Recorded broadcast of April 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Nina Epton
Unknown:
Joyce Dunsheath
Unknown:
Katherine Sim
Unknown:
Stewart Wavell

A light-hearted look at the advertising world
Script by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe
Produced by Eric Miller
The recorded broadcast of January 16 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Writer:
Myles Rudge
Writer:
Ronnie Wolfe
Producer:
Eric Miller
Michael Lightfoot, an account executive:
Michael Medwin
Maggie, a TV executive:
Eleanor Summerfield
Janet, secretary to Michael Lightfoot:
Fenella Fielding
Mavis, a shorthand typist:
Joan Sims
Adrian Beale, a copywriter:
Nicholas Phipps
Most other characters:
Warren Mitchell

Ballet suite: Les Syl'phiaVfc (Chapin)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Hungarian Fantasia for piano and orchestra (Liszt)
Shura Cherkasistky (piano)
Berlin Philharmomic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Symphony No. 3, in C minor (Saint-Saens)
Marcel Dupré (organ)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Panay
on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Eugene Ormand
Conducted By:
Herbert Von Karajan
Conducted By:
Paul Panay

The Pontefract Inheritance
A comedy for radio by REDMOND MACDONOGH
Old Ebenezer Pontefract was a great trial to his family, but he was a rich man, and the Pontefract Inheritance was an important consideration ...
Other parts played by numbers of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Radio By:
Redmond MacDonogh
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Ebenezer Pontefract:
Geoffrey Wincott
Haroll Pontefract:
Christopher Hodge
Sarah Pontefract:
Barbara Mitchell
Gillian Pontefract:
Sheila Grant
Simon Hollis:
Keith Buckley
Anne:
Mary O'Farrell
Philip:
Philip Leaver
Sir Charles Hollis:
Godfrey Kenton
Dr Biggleswade:
Julian Somers

from LiverpooJ Cathedral
Introit: Laudate Dominum (Pitoni) Preces
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 32, 33, and 34 First Lesson: 2 Kings 25, vv. 8-30 Magnificat (Wood in E flat, No. 1)
Second Lesson: St. John 6, vv. 41-71 Nunc dimittis (Wood in E flat, No. 1) Creed: Lesser Litany; Collects
Anthem: Praise ye the Lord, ye children (Tye)
Prayers
The Grace
Choirmaster, Ronald Woan Organist. Noel Rawsthorne

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Ronald Woan
Organist:
Noel Rawsthorne

Clifford Curzon (piano)
Eileen Broster
Carlina Carr (pianos) Bronwen Jones
BBC Chorus
London New Music Singers
Conductor, Graham Treacher
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Henry Datyner
Conducted by Sir Adrian. Boutt
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Piano:
Eileen Broster
Pianos:
Carlina Carr
Pianos:
Bronwen Jones
Conductor:
Graham Treacher
Leader:
Henry Datyner
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian.

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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