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Sommerfaden
Herbstgefiihl
Variations in D minor (String
Sextet in B flat major)
Two Songs. Op. 91, with viola obbligato
Gestillte Sehnsucht
Geistliches Wiegenlied
THE VOICE AND VIOLA Trio
Maureen Lehane (contralto) Victor Manton (viola)
Susan Bradshaw (piano)
Last of three programmes

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Viola:
Victor Manton
Piano:
Susan Bradshaw

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
The new Road Traffic Bill: DENIS O'Neill of the Ministry of Transport reports on the present position
Transatlantic Roads:
KEN PITMAN talks about his recent visit to North America
The Specialist: DICK WATSON an expert on the clutch
Your Letters: a selection from the Post-Bag Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Denis O'Neill
Talks:
Ken Pitman
Unknown:
Dick Watson

with Cicely Courtneidge as Katie
Vic Oliver as Oscar
Jack Hulbert as Henry
Joan Benham asAmanda
Also taking part: David Graham
Rosalind Knight. Ivan Samson George Hagan , Janet Burnell Script by Bob Block Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
Joan Benham
Unknown:
David Graham
Unknown:
Rosalind Knight.
Unknown:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
George Hagan
Unknown:
Janet Burnell
Script By:
Bob Block
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Edith Day, American-born star of many celebrated musical comedies including The Desert Song and Rose-Marie, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

(Broadcast on August 20)
(Edith Day is in 'Sail Away' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Edith Day
Producer:
Monica Chapman

The Weather for Murder by Philip Levene with Marie Hey and Barbara Couper
Elsie Pierce helps her sister to run the village tea-shop, and in her spare time enjoys writing detective novels. Suddenly she finds fiction becoming alarmingly like fact!
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY Broadcast on April 18 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Levene
Unknown:
Marie Hey
Unknown:
Barbara Couper
Unknown:
Elsie Pierce
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
Mr Wrayton:
Derek Blomfield
Sarah Pierce:
Barbara Couper
Milly:
Peggy Butt
Elsie:
Pierce Marieney
Sergeant Foster:
Julian Somers
Mrs Clarke:
Vivienne Chatterton
Mr Everitt:
Derek Birch
Mrs Everitt:
Stella Tanner
Miss Brown:
Zibba Mays
Coroner:
John Bryning
Mr Jenkins:
William Eedle
Mr Potter:
Lewis Stringer
Connie:
Angela Piper
Costumier:
Donald McKillop

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Joy Holman (soprano)
Introduced by Ivan Samson
Master of Ceremonies, Holland Brookbank
Produced by Andrew Gold
The dances: Boston Twostep; Waltz; Square-Tango; Clarendon Saunter; Classic Gavotte; Bradford Barn Dance; Pride of Erin: Eva Threestep; Mill-brook Foxtrot
The songs: Love's garden of roses; Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow

Tickets for this programme are available on application to [address removed] enclosing stamped addressed envelope

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Soprano:
Joy Holman
Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Holland Brookbank
Produced By:
Andrew Gold

Cyril Fletcher introduces
Chris Carlsen
Clive Lythgoe
Graham Stark
William Dickie
Janie Marden
David Kossoff and Libby Morris
Script bv David Cumming and Derek Collyer
Richard Murdoch
Kenneth Home
THE ADAM SINGERS
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, PAUL FENOULHET Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Cyril Fletcher is In ' Summer Masquerade ' at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne; David Kossoff and Libby Morris are in ' Come Blow Your Horn ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London; Chris Carlsen is in ' The Fol de Rols ' at the White Rock Pavilion, Hastingi

Contributors

Introduces:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Chris Carlsen
Unknown:
Clive Lythgoe
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
William Dickie
Unknown:
Janie Marden
Unknown:
David Kossoff
Unknown:
Libby Morris
Unknown:
David Cumming
Unknown:
Derek Collyer
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Produced By:
Bill Worsley
Produced By:
Cyril Fletcher

Epitaph for a Dead Actor by Dulcie Gray adapted from her novel of the same name with Colin Gordon , Gudrun Ure Eileen Peel , Mary Wimbush
When a famous actor is found shot in a television rehearsal room, police suspicion falls on his fellow actors and actresses — particularly on the actresses, because Robert Strang could never resist a pretty face. Cost in order of speaking: Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Contributors

Unknown:
Dulcie Gray
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Unknown:
Gudrun Ure
Unknown:
Eileen Peel
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Robert Strang
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Louise Ferrar:
Gudrun Ure
Mrs Leonard, her housekeeper:
Barbara Mitchell
John Foster, a TV producer:
Colin Gordon
David Elliott:
John Pullen
Robert Strang:
Denys Hawthorne
June Mavor, Foster's secretary:
Peggy Butt
Artie Brown, Foster's assistant:
Anthony Hall
Gladys Burnage:
Janet Burnell
Anita Weston:
Elizabeth Morgan
Mervyn Bush:
Kenneth Hyde
Kenneth Regan:
Michael Deacon
Superintendent Cardiff:
Derek Blomfield
Sergeant Tyler:
Michael Spice
Det Chief Supt Braddell:
George Hagan
Hall porter:
Will Leighton
Joyce Furness:
Mary Wimbush
Ann Strang:
Eileen Peel
Desk Sergeant (Porky):
Anthony Viccars
Mrs Cardiff:
Barbara Mitchell
Nurse:
Peggy Butt

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