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Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
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
Prudence Forrest:
Mary Dalley
Johnny Martin:
Philip Needs
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Fred Barratt:
Tommy Duggan
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood
Dawn Kingsley:
Patricia Bendall

Pink String and Sealing Wax by Roland Pertwee adapted by PEGGY WELLS
The play is set in Brighton: period 1880. The action takes place in the house and adjoining shop of Edward Strachan , a chemist.
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Roland Pertwee
Adapted By:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Edward Strachan
Produced By:
Archie Campbell

from Southampton
Special Guest: Patricia Hayes Keyboard Memory: B. C. HIL-LIAM C Flotsam ') tells a story at the piano
' Our Age ': young people of Southampton answer questions from the audience; chairman, DEREK COOPER
Join in and Sing: FREDERICK HARVEY , accompanied by Ruby TAYLOR , sings some of the old songs
Introduced by JOHN JOHNSTON
Presented before an invited audience at Avenue Hall. as part of Southampton's BBC Week

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Frederick Harvey
Accompanied By:
Ruby Taylor
Introduced By:
John Johnston

by Ray Butler freely based on the novel For the Term of his Natural Life by MARCUS CLARKE
The scene is Australia In the latter half of the nineteenth century: the Australia of convicts, transportation, and Botany Bay.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Butler
Unknown:
Marcus Clarke
Produced By:
David Davis
Lieutenant Frere:
Victor Lucas
Major Vickers:
Patrick Barr
Troke:
Humphrey Morton
Sylvia Vickers:
Ann Totten
Bates:
Charles Leno
Mrs Vickers:
Jean Anderson
Rex:
Eric Anderson
Rufus Dawes:
John Slater
Prosecuting Counsel:
Humphrey Morton
Judge:
Eric Anderson

Haydn
It is finished (The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross)
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
11.22' Piano Trio No. 3, in C major
DAVID OISTRAKH (violin)
SERGE KNUSHEVITSKY (cello) LEV OBORIN (piano) on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Viola:
Watson Forbes
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Violin:
David Oistrakh
Cello:
Serge Knushevitsky

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