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A programme of old favourites sung by EDNA BENNETT (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the WESTERN OPERA PLAYERS
Chorus-Master. ARTHUR DUNN Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE

Contributors

Sung By:
Edna Bennett
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Chorus-Master:
Arthur Dunn
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

Clarkson Rose, pantomime dame and star of summer shows, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Clarkson Rose is appearing in 'Old King Cole' at the Palace Theatre, Manchester)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Clarkson Rose
Producer:
Monica Chapman

For retired and older people and those concerned for their welfare

Magic Shoestrings: Albert Butler

Mother Christmas: Enid Kelleway

Cats: Elsie Campbell

Christmas Visits: Margaret Prance

Your Christmas Competition: not more than 300 words of prose or verse on 'My Favourite Occupation' or 'My Pet.' Entries to reach 'Indian Summer,' [address removed], by January 1.
No individual acknowledgements will be given, but a selection will be read in this programme on January 7.

Introduced by John Dunn

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Butler
Unknown:
Elsie Campbell
Introduced By:
John Dunn

Greetings and Christmas messages to the children of Britain recorded by boys and girls from many parts of the world
The European greetings include messages from Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Austria. Germany. Greece, and Portugal; and from further overseas come greetings from Malta, Uganda, Liberia, Australia, Tonga, Ceylon, and Hawaii Introduced by EVELYN Williams

Contributors

Introduced By:
Evelyn Williams

Introduced and conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano)
HELEN WATTS (contralto)
DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor)
IAN WALLACE (baritone)
EILEEN BROSTER (piano) Produced by ALAN ABBOTT

Contributors

Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Elizabeth Harwood
Contralto:
Helen Watts
Tenor:
Duncan Robertson
Baritone:
Ian Wallace
Piano:
Eileen Broster
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

Deryck Guyler
Trevor Martin
Ian McShane in the play by Ted Willis and Jan Read based on their original treatment for the Ealing Studios Film adapted for radio by JAN READ for the series Sight Into Sound
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Sight into Sound is a series of plays by leading writers from film and television, broadcast by arrangement with the TV and Screenwriters' Guild.

Contributors

Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Trevor Martin
Unknown:
Ian McShane
Play By:
Ted Willis
Unknown:
Jan Read
Unknown:
Jan Read
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Det Inspector Cherry:
Trevor Martin
Mrs Jordan:
Barbara Mitchell
Mr Jordan:
Malcolm Hayes
Spud Murphy:
Frank Partington
Tom Riley:
Ian McShane
Nancy:
Mary O'Farrell
Sergeant Flint:
George Hagan
P C George Dixon:
Deryck Guyler
P C Andy Crawford:
Geoffrey Matthews
W P Sgt Grace Millard:
Joan Hart
Mrs Lewis:
Hilda Kriseman
Det Sgt Green:
Michael Spice
Mary Dixon:
Patricia Bendall
Diana Lewis:
Jo Manning Wilson
Mrs Nidos:
Vivienne Chatterton
Sonny Walters:
John Pullen
Mrs Riley:
Janet Burnell
Mr Wildberg:
Haydn Jones
Comedian:
Peter Pratt

in The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
Goblins.THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Dickens
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Conductor:
Christopher Whelen
Storyteller:
Ralph Richardson
King of the Goblins:
Wilfred Brown

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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