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Richard Wattis discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated next Saturday at 1.40)
(Richard Wattis is in 'Six of One' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Richard Wattis
Producer:
Monica Chapman

By Way of Kensal Green by Basil Francis with Noel Johnson Burma 1942. An emergency airfield is being built in the jungle by an R.A.F. unit: but objections are raised by the village headman.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Basil Francis
Unknown:
Noel Johnson Burma
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Newsreader:
Norman Claridge
Chiefy:
Malcolm Hayes
Orderly:
Timothy Harley
Frankie, the Adjutant:
Geoffrey Matthews
Shaibah, the C O:
Noel Johnson
Doc:
Gabriel Woolf
Maung-Lee:
John Ruddock
Carol West:
Elizabeth London
Rusty Williams:
Alan Haines

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
You asked us to play ... record requests
For your book-list: by JOHN
HOPKINS
Turning points: 4-SIR JOHN
HUNT talks to JOHN ELLISON
Indispensable Baedeker: by PHILIP UNWIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Unwin

by Christopher Marlowe with Stephen Murray , Esme Percy and Baliol Holloway
Music specially composed by JAMES BERNARD and played by the SINFONIA OF LONDON Conducted by JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH
Produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Broadcast on October 8, 1956

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Esme Percy
Unknown:
Baliol Holloway
Composed By:
James Bernard
Conducted By:
John Hollingsworth
Produced By:
Michael Bakewell
Chorus:
Baliol Holloway
Faustus:
Stephen Murray
Wagner:
Bryan Kendrick
Good Angel:
Dorothy Gordon
Evil Angel:
Joan Hart
Valdes:
Denis McCarthy
Cornelius:
Leigh Crutchley
First Scholar:
Patrick Godfrey
Second Scholar:
Simon Lack
Mephistophilis:
Esme Percy
Continued in:
Next Column
Lucifer:
Frank Partington
Belzebub:
Charles Hodgson
Pride:
Allan McClelland
Covetousness:
James Thomason
Wrath:
John Wood
Envy:
Kathleen Helme
Gluttony:
Eric Francis
Sloth:
Morris Sweden
Lechery:
Patsy Byrne
Martino:
Simon Lack
Frederick:
John Wood
Benvolio:
Denis Goacher
Emperor:
William Fox
Third Scholar:
Charles Hodgson
Old Man:
Martin Lewis

Cello Sonata No. 2, in G minor (Fauré)
ROGER ALBIN (cello)
CLAUDE HELFFER (piano)
11.33* Clarinet Sonatina (Martinu)
GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet) CYRIL PREEDY (piano) on gramophone records

Contributors

Cello:
Roger Albin
Piano:
Claude Helffer
Clarinet:
Gervase de Peyer
Piano:
Cyril Preedy

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