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Friends and Relations by St. John Ervine adapted for broadcasting by JOHN BOYD
A millionaire has died and his relations, parasites almost all, Krasp at his money. A posthumous letter assesses each and the play vindicates his judgment.
Produced by RONALD MASON Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
John Boyd
Produced By:
Ronald Mason

For retired and older people, and for those concerned for their welfare New Year: with DAVE WILLIS
1 Stolen Property: Who is legally responsible if property is stolen from a hotel or an old people's home? A barrister explains A Holy Land Trip:
MARGUERITE RAYNER f New plants from old: unusual pot plants you can grow, by ENID KELLEWAY
The Changelings: a story from COMMANDER IBBETT
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Willis
Unknown:
Marguerite Rayner
Unknown:
Enid Kelleway
Introduced By:
Sam Pollock

Seventh of twelve Toytown plays by S. G. HULME BEAMAN
Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL f Previously broadcast last
January

Contributors

Unknown:
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:
Norman Shelley
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson

Regional Variations (3)

A Gaelic welcome to the New Year In song and light music

BBC Home Service Scottish

Ernest Element. violin: Clifton Helliwell, piano: Mozart. Kenneth Leighton. Elgar

BBC Home Service Midland

You remember a tune-but who wrote the words?
This week DEREK PARKER listens to some of the best popular songs of the century with words by Lorenz Hart Produced by BARRY WHITEHALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Lorenz Hart
Produced By:
Barry Whitehall

Regional Variations (2)

BBC Scottish Orchestra. conducted by Bernard Keeffe: Cherubini, MacCunn. Borodin

BBC Home Service Scottish

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor. VILEM TAUSKY with APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
LESLIE FYSON (tenor)
Owen BRANNIGAN (bass)
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS Produced by ALAN ABBOTT
The programme includes the Concert Suite from ' Our Man in Havana' by Malcolm Williamson

Contributors

Tenor:
Leslie Fyson
Bass:
Owen Brannigan
Singers:
John McCarthy
Produced By:
Alan Abbott
Unknown:
Malcolm Williamson

The novel by Christopher Isherwood adapted as a play for radio by ERIC EWENS with Howard Marion Crawford and David Peel
The action of the play takes place in the autumn and winter of 1933-34. Cast in order of speaking:
Studio techhicians:
Characters in the film Prater Violet:
Continued in next column
Singer, HELEN CLARE
Pianist, CICELY HOYE
The theme song ' Prater Violet composed by Alan Paul and played by the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra Leader, David Paget conducted by the composer
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL Previously broadcast in 1955

Contributors

Novel By:
Christopher Isherwood
Unknown:
Howard Marion Crawford
Singer:
Helen Clare
Pianist:
Cicely Hoye
Song:
Prater Violet
Composed By:
Alan Paul
Leader:
David Paget
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Christopher Isherwood:
David Peel
A secretary:
Brian Haines
Mrs Isherwood:
Molly Rankin
Richard, her younger son:
Charles Hodgson
Dr Friedrich Bergmann:
Howard Marion Crawford
Hall Porter:
George Merritt
Head Waiter at the Old Vienna':
..........John Gabriel
Mr Chatsworth, of Imperial Bulldog Films:
...Cyril Shaps
Eddie Kennedy, a film director:
Leonard Trolley
Sandy' Ashmeade, story editor to Bulldog Films:
Robert Bishop
Dorothy, Bergmann's secretary:
Patricia Brent
Lawrence, chief cutter:
Malcolm Hayes
Fred:
John Gabriel
Joe:
Charles Hodgson
Roger:
Leonard Trolley
Eliot, an assistant Director:
Kim Grant
The Count:
Martin Lewis
The Crown Prince:
John Gabriel
Anita Hayden, a film star:
Cécile Chevreau
Hans Pfeffer, a composer:
Rudolph Offenbach
Patterson, a journalist:
Garard Green

Extracts from the Cambridge Footlights 1963 Revue
with Humphrey Barclay, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
and Burt Rhodes and his Quintet

Contributors

Performer:
Humphrey Barclay
Performer:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Performer:
Graham Chapman
Performer:
John Cleese
Performer:
David Hatch
Performer:
Jo Kendall
Performer:
Bill Oddie
Musicians:
Burt Rhodes and his Quintet
Associate Musical Director:
Hugh MacDonald
Producer:
Humphrey Barclay
Producer:
Edward Taylor

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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