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Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
[Also appearing]:
Captain R. E. Wallace
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux

Jill Balcon , Max Adrian and Jessie Evans in A Glass of Water
The play by Eugene Scribe translated and adapted for radio by KITTY BLACK and DAVID PEEL
Produced by JOHN POWELL
The action of the play takes place in St. James's Palace, London. Time: early eighteenth century, during the reign of Queen Anne.
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Jessie Evans
Play By:
Eugene Scribe
Produced By:
John Powell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Escape from Kiev:
DR. HERBERT SWANN talks to JACK SINGLETON about his adventures during the Russian Revolution
Looking at Books: SIMONA
PAKENHAM talks about the late Victorian novelist ' John Strange Winter ,' author of Booties' Baby and A Seaside Flirt, and her life in Dieppe
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
Dr. Herbert Swann
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
John Strange Winter
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

'Uncle by J. P. Martin adapted as a dramatised reading in four parts by JOSEPHINE BRUCE
PART 1: A Ride Round
Other parts played by Nigel Graham , Noel Howlett
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
J. P. Martin
Unknown:
Josephine Bruce
Played By:
Nigel Graham
Played By:
Noel Howlett
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Storyteller:
John Pullen
Uncle:
Fred Yule
Old Monkey:
Wilfred Babbage
Beaver Hateman:
Geoffrey Matthews

A tragedy by Bernard Shaw with Alec McCowen
Maurice Denham
William Eedle , Mary Wimbush
The action takes place in 1903 in a consulting-room in Queen Anne Street , at the Star and Garter at Richmond, in Dubedat's studio, and in a Bond Street art gallery.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Alec McCowen
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Queen Anne Street
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Emmy:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Redpenny:
Brian Hewlett
Sir Colenso Ridgeon:
William Eedle
Leo Schutzmacher:
Geoffrey Matthews
Sir Patrick Cullen:
Walter Fitzgerald
Cutler Walpole:
Hector Ross
Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington:
Maurice Denham
Dr Blenkinsop:
Noel Howlett
Jennifer Dubedat:
Mary Wimbush
Louis Dubedat:
Alec McCowen
Minnie Tinwell:
Valerie Kirkbright
The Newspaper Man:
Anthony Jackson
Mr Danby:
Brian Hewlett

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

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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