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From the BBC Sound Archives
Richard Church
Introduces a selection of the recorded voices of his acquaintance including:
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
JOHN HILTON
WALTER DE LA MARE
W. H. DAVIES
DYLAN THOMAS
JAMES STEPHENS
W. B. YEATS
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hilton
Unknown:
Walter De La Mare
Unknown:
W. H. Davies
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
James Stephens
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

The Devil's Minister by Alistair Mair adapted for radio by JOHN WILSON irith
Hamilton Dyce
Bryden Murdoch
Madeleine Christie
One night on board ship off Africa a man had died a peculiar death. This was unexplained until Hugh Collins came to settle in Scotland and met The Devil's Minister.
Produced by STEWART CONN Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Mair
Unknown:
John Wilson
Unknown:
Hamilton Dyce
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Madeleine Christie
Unknown:
Hugh Collins
Produced By:
Stewart Conn

For retired and older people, and for those concerned for their welfare
Gifts for Gardeners: ALBERT BUTLER
Keeping Fit in Later Years; 4—Mind as well as muscle: the Medical Officer of Health, Dagenham
Famous Conductors I Have Known:
9—Wilhelm Furtwängler, by C. B. REES Petticoat Government:
DOUGLAS A. SMITH
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Butler
Unknown:
C. B. Rees
Introduced By:
Sam Pollock

by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin with music by Peter Greenwell
with Joyce Carey, Eira Heath, Donald Pickering, Viola Lyel, William Fox
A play with songs based on "They Will Not Do Us Justice"
A story about the suffragettes by Caryl Brahms
with Bruce Condell, Shirley Cooklin, Alan Haines, Margaret Wolfit and a section of THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Conducted by MICHAEL MOORES Produced by H. B. FORTUlN

Contributors

Unknown:
Caryl Brahms
Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Music By:
Peter Greenwell
Unknown:
Joyce Carey
Unknown:
Eira Heath
Unknown:
Donald Pickering
Viola:
null Lyel
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Caryl Brahms
Unknown:
Bruce Condell
Unknown:
Shirley Cooklin
Unknown:
Alan Haines
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Conducted By:
Michael Moores
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuln
Arthur Courage:
William Fox
Henrietta Dill Plunkett:
Joyce Carey
Cecily Smith-Smith:
Isabel Rennie
Lavinia Courage:
Viola Lyel
The Case:
Elizabeth Morgan
Patience:
Eira Heath
Peter:
Donald Pickering
The Duke of Colchester:
Peter Pratt
The Duchess of Colchester:
Una Venning
Spinkfield Girl:
Elizabeth Morgan

Cantata: Blandire Puero
Giovanni Battista Giansetti first broadcast performance in this country
†WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
SIMON PRESTON
(harpsichord continuo)
TERENCE WEIL (cello continuo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Blandire Puero
Unknown:
Giovanni Battista Giansetti
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Harpsichord:
Simon Preston
Cello:
Terence Weil

Arthur Bliss
Quintet for clarinet and strings MELOS ENSEMBLE
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Bliss
Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Ivor McMahon
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Terence Weil

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