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MAX WORTHLEY (tenor)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Songs:
The Land of Lost Content:
The Lent lily; Ladslove; Goal and wicket; The vain desire; The encounter; Epilogue
London Pieces:
Chelsea Reach; Ragamuffin; Soho forenoons
Songs:
If there were dreams to sell I have twelve oxen
Love is a sickness full of woes
Hope the hornblower

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
The Motor Show
.4 European View: by ROBERT BRAUNSCHWEIG, Editor of Automobil Revue of Switzerland
A Woman's View: by CHRIS TINE COTTON
The Professionals' Views: GEOFFREY HANCOCK and Roy MCCARTHY discuss this year's Show with L. G. T. FARMER, President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Chris Tine
Unknown:
Geoffrey Hancock
Unknown:
Roy McCarthy
Unknown:
L. G. T. Farmer,

Tony Hancock with SIDNEY JAMES
BILL KERR
PATRICIA HAVES
JOAN FRANK
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by TOM RONALD Broadcast on December 15,
1959, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Sidney James
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Patricia Haves
Unknown:
Joan Frank
Written By:
Alan Simpson
Written By:
Ray Galton
Produced By:
Tom Ronald

The Gentleman Soldier by Pauline Spender with Bryan Pringle as Daniel Pauline Wynn as Lily and Leigh Crutchley as Willie
A housewife with no knack for housekeeping and a vacuum-cleaner salesman who is a dab hand in the kitchen pass a revealing day together.
Traditional song arranged by Frederick Marshall Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Spender
Unknown:
Bryan Pringle
Unknown:
Daniel Pauline Wynn
Unknown:
Leigh Crutchley
Arranged By:
Frederick Marshall
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

A new series of adventures of the boy detectives with Harold Reese as Norman and Patricia Hayes as Henry, his cousin
2:Five Black Diamonds
' Henry ... these are diamonds! I'll swear they are! '
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Reese
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Mr Bones:
Philip Cunningham
Mrs Bones:
Ann Codrington
Mr Arkwright:
Heron Carvic
Inspector Martin:
Preston Lockwood
Mr Sanford:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mrs Sanford:
Ysanne Churchman
Mrs Stobart:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Detective-Inspector Lorraine:
William Greene
Mr Lowe:
Peter Augustine
Mr Henderson:
Fred Yule
Mrs Cadman:
Dorothy Black

Introduced by Vic Oliver
The singers Ann Finley
Peter Glossop
The George Mitchell Singers
First broadcast
Ann Moran
Comedy from
Hattie Jacques
Leslie Crowther
Ronnie Barker
This week's guest
Raymond Francis
Playhouse Theatre Sir Donald Wolfit with Marjorie Rhodes and Pat Gilbert
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VIC OLIVER
Script by Carey Edwards Leslie Crowther and Lawrie Wyman Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Leslie Crowther is appearing in 'The Black and White Minstrel Show ' at the Victoria Palace, London; Peter Glossop broadcasts by permission of the Sadler's Wells
Opera Company

Contributors

Introduced By:
Vic Oliver
Singers:
Ann Finley
Singers:
Peter Glossop
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Raymond Francis
Unknown:
Sir Donald Wolfit
Unknown:
Marjorie Rhodes
Unknown:
Pat Gilbert
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Script By:
Carey Edwards
Script By:
Leslie Crowther
Script By:
Lawrie Wyman
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Produced By:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Peter Glossop

The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham dramatised by HOWARD AGG
Raymond Huntley with George Merritt and Denys Hawthorne
Journeying back from Takanar in Captain Nichols's lugger. Dr. Saunders meets Fred Blake , a handsome but truculent young man with a mys terious background. Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Howard Agg
Dramatised By:
Raymond Huntley
Unknown:
George Merritt
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Fred Blake
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Doctor Saunders:
Raymond Huntley
Captain Nichols:
George Merritt
Fred Blake:
Denys Hawthorne
Kim Ching:
Will Leighton
Ryan:
Peter Claughton
Erik Christessen:
William Eedle
George Frith:
Peter Pratt
Swan:
Geoffrey Wincott
Louise Frith:
Sheila Grant
Dutch official:
Anthony Viccars
Mrs Hudson:
Barbara Mitchell
Patrick Hudson:
Lewis Stringer

Brahms
Quintet in F major, Op. 88 played by the ENGLISH STRING QUARTET Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello) with John Yewe Dyer (viola)
Brahms Quintet in G major, Op. 111: October 27

Contributors

Violin:
Nona Liddell
Violin:
Eleanor St. George
Viola:
Marjorie Lempfert
Viola:
John Yewe Dyer

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