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A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold
Phra has come a very long way from his Mediterranean birthplace when he is discovered in an old cellar. And he has a very strange story to tell.
Broadcast on Nov. 13, 1960

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Kelly
Based on the book by:
Edwin Lester Arnold
Producer:
Claire Chovil
Phra:
Norman Wooland
Hanno:
Jeffrey Segal
Doctor:
William Fox
First Boy:
Barry Henderson
Second Boy:
Christopher Turner
Abbot:
Carleton Hobbs
Armourer:
Jeffrey Segal
Isabel of Oswaldston:
Elizabeth London

Phyllis Sellick (piano)
Scottish National Orchestra
Leader, Sam Bor
Conducted by Karl Rankl
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
8.10* The Interval
The Two Faces of Edinburgh
A disquisition on the High-life and the Low-life of Edinburgh one hundred years ago by Moray MacLaren
8.25* Orchestral Concert
Part 2

Contributors

Piano:
Phyllis Sellick
Leader:
Sam Bor
Conducted By:
Karl Rankl
Unknown:
Moray MacLaren

Walter Winterbottom looks back over seventeen years as England team manager and director of coaching to the Football Association and forward to his new appointment as General Secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation in a conversation with Rex Alston.

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Winterbottom

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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