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Kenneth Connor discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated on Saturday at 1.40)
(Kenneth Connor is in 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' at the Strand Theatre, London.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Kenneth Connor
Producer:
Monica Chapman

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
You asked us to play ... record requests
Saved from the slavers: Livingstone and ' Lady Nyasa,' by DR. CECIL NORTHCOTT
For your library list: some recommendations from FIELDEN HUGHES
Odd jobs: 3-Punch and Judy Man. PERCY PRESS talks to NAN MACDONALD
Introduced by MARGARET HUBBLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Northcott
Unknown:
Fielden Hughes
Unknown:
Judy Man.
Introduced By:
Margaret Hubble

A new radio play by Sylvia Wynter based on the novel by ROGER MAIS with Earl Cameron and Lloyd Reckord
Brother Man , a cobbler in a Jamaican slum, tries to live according to the teaching of the Gospels. His neighbours tolerate this eccentricity only as long as they can trade upon it.
Other parts played by Jan Carew , Frankie Dymon Bloke Modisane
Gordon Woolford
The action takes place in and near a slum in Kingston, Jamaica. Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Play By:
Sylvia Wynter
Novel By:
Roger Mais
Unknown:
Earl Cameron
Unknown:
Lloyd Reckord
Unknown:
Brother Man
Played By:
Jan Carew
Played By:
Frankie Dymon
Played By:
Bloke Modisane
Unknown:
Gordon Woolford
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Brother Ambrose:
Leo Carera
Joe:
Elizabeth Morgan
Eudora, the candyseller:
Barbara Assoon
Chin:
Andrew Sachs
Neighbours:
Jumoke Debayo
Neighbours and:
Sheila Clarke
Papacita:
Lloyd Reckord
Girlie:
Leonie Forbes
Corporal Ralph Jenkins:
Charles Hyatt
Hortense:
Pearl Prescod
Minette:
Mona Chin
Brother Man:
Earl Cameron
Fingers:
Horace James

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