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This old woman replans her garden: MARGARET SPENCER SMITH
Theatre Memories: 3-Seymour
Hicks, by MATTHEW NORGATE Techniques of Fishing: I-In a lake, by FRED COWBURN On Saying Thank You:
JEAN CUNNINGHAM
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Spencer Smith
Unknown:
Matthew Norgate
Unknown:
Fred Cowburn
Unknown:
Jean Cunningham
Introduced By:
Sam Pollock

A seven-part dialogue story from the book by PATRICIA LYNCH adapted for radio by CICELY MATHEWS
6: The Silver Bracelet
Produced by CICELY MATHEWS

Contributors

Book By:
Patricia Lynch
Unknown:
Cicely Mathews
Produced By:
Cicely Mathews
Judy:
Siobhan Smith
Patrick:
John Ashe
Brogeen:
H J Blaney
Muldoon:
Charles Witherspoon
Old Man:
James Boyce
Lorcan Barry:
Sean Reid
Mrs Barry:
Catherine Gibson
Mrs Muir:
Doreen Hepburn
Narrator:
Kathleen O'Donnell

VILEM TAUSKY conducts
THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins with VICTORIA ELLIOTT (soprano)
ROWLAND JONES (tenor)
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
The programme includes:
Produced by ALAN ABBOTT

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Victoria Elliott
Tenor:
Rowland Jones
Singers:
John McCarthy
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

L'Arlésienne
The Girl from Aries
A drama in three acts by Alphonse Daudet translated by EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST
Music by Georges Bizet
Bizet's music will be performed in accordance with the composer's directions as indicated in his original score for the first performance in Paris in 1872. Characters in order of speaking:
THE BOWMAN-HYDE SINGERS
LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader. Lionel Bentley
Conductor, ANTHONY BERNARD
Adapted for radio and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Act 1: The courtyard of Le
Castaler, a farm in Provence. May 1, 1860.
Act 2: Scene 1: Near the Pool of Vaccares, in the salt marshes of the Camargue. Towards the end of May.
Scene 2: In the kitchen of Le Castalet. A week later.
Act 3: Scene 1: The courtyard of Le Castalet. June 21.
Scene 2: The room under the hayloft at Le Castalet. Later that night. The stereophonic production broadcast in June 1962

Contributors

Unknown:
Alphonse Daudet
Translated By:
Edward Sackville-West
Music By:
Georges Bizet
Leader:
Lionel Bentley
Conductor:
Anthony Bernard
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Narrator:
Rolf Lefebvre
Francet Mamai, a Provencal farmer:
.......Peter Claughton
Balthazar, an old shepherd:
Earle Grey
Jean, Francet's grandson, a Simpleton:
.......Anthony Hall
Rose Mamai, Francet's daugh:
Vivienne Chatterton
BARBARA MITCHELL:
Vivette Renaud
Frédéri, elder brother of Jean:
Michael Spice
Mark, brother of Rose:
George Hagan
Mitifio, a drover:
William Eedle
Madame Renaud, grandmotherof Vivette:
June Tobin

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