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Sir Learie Constantine, Cricketer, barrister, and High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight records he would take to a desert island.

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Sir Learie Constantine
Producer:
Monica Chapman

At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason dramatised by HOWARD AGG
Second in the series Murder for Pleasure with James McKechnie and Austin Trevor
Most of us, when we set out on a continental holiday, hope that something rather out of the ordinary may happen to us; something romantic perhaps, or even dramatic. Julius Ricardo certainly became involved in something dramatic at Aix-Ies-Bains.
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
A. E. W. Mason
Dramatised By:
Howard Agg
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster

For retired and older people, and those concerned for their welfare Straitened Circumstances: by a listener The Front Room:
ALBERT BUTLER
Family Hobby: H. G. TRANCHELL ' The Way of All Flesh': an extract from Samuel Butler 's book read by ROLF LEFEBVRE
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOYES

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Butler
Unknown:
H. G. Tranchell
Unknown:
Samuel Butler
Read By:
Rolf Lefebvre
Introduced By:
Alexander Moyes

A Toytown Play by S. G. HULME BEAMAN Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
The Magician:
Nrman Shelley
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson
The Mayor of Arkville:
Wilfred Babbage

Introduced and conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) MONICA Sinclair (contralto) KENNETH MACDONALD (tenor) PETER ELEMENT (piano) THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY Produced by ALAN ABBOTT

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Jeannette Sinclair
Tenor:
Kenneth MacDonald
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

by Anthony Powell adapted for broadcasting by BENNETT MAXWELL
Other parts played by Peggy Butt , Freda Dowie
Gladys Spencer , Dorit Welles Derek Blomfield , Bill Horsley Will Leighton , Charles Simon Produced by BENNETT MAXWELL for the Rothwell Group

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Broadcasting By:
Bennett Maxwell
Played By:
Peggy Butt
Played By:
Freda Dowie
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Unknown:
Dorit Welles
Unknown:
Derek Blomfield
Unknown:
Bill Horsley
Unknown:
Will Leighton
Unknown:
Charles Simon
Produced By:
Bennett Maxwell
Lushington:
Michael Spice
Ortrud Mavrin:
Diana Olsson
Da CostaWilliam:
Eeble
Count Bobel:
Julian Somers
Pope:
Douglas Storm
Professor Mavrin:
Harold Reese
Curtis Cortney:
John Pullen
Count Scherbatcheff:
Kenneth Dight
Waldemar:
Hugh Dickson
Baroness Puckler:
Hilda Kriseman
Lucy:
Gudrun Ure

Madehenlieder:
Am jungsten Tag ich aufersteh'; Ach, und du mein kuhles Wasser: Auf die Nacht in der Spinnstub'n; Das Madchen spricht; Das Madchen; Madchenfluch sung by HELGA MOTT (soprano) with VIOLA Tunnard (piano)

Contributors

Sung By:
Helga Mott
Piano:
Viola Tunnard

"Cassation in C major" (Haydn)
Walter Gerwig (flute),
Ilse Brix-Meinert (violin)
Johannes Koch (viola da gamba)

"Divertimento in B flat major" (K.196f) (Mozart)
Detmold Wind Sextet

(On gramophone records)

Contributors

Flautist:
Walter Gerwig
Violinist:
Ilse Brix-Meinert
Violist:
Johannes Koch
Musicians:
Detmold Wind Sextet

BBC Home Service Basic

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