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Introduced by Olive Shapley
'The Hen and her Hot Weather Troubles.' by Eunice E. Kidd
' Picture of Retirement,' by a retired hospital matron
' Women from the Portrait Painter's Point of View.' by Frank Slater
Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial: 'Jenny Villlers ' by J. B. Priestley. Abridged by Honor Wyatt . Read by Mary O'Farrell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Frank Slater
Unknown:
Jenny Villlers
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley.
Abridged By:
Honor Wyatt
Read By:
Mary O'Farrell

Tonight: Scenes from
'Die Fledermaus ' by Johann Strauss
Lorely Dyer (soprano) Norah Gruhn (soprano)
Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
Tano Ferendlnos (tenor)
Geoffrey Dunn (tenor)
Dennis Bowen (baritone) Murray Davies (baritone)
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
BBC Theatre Orchestra
(Leader. Alfred Barker )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Story told by Stephen Williams
' Die Fledermaus means literally ' The Bat,' and we learn that one of the characters, Dr. Falke, once went to a fancy dress ball as a bat. But that has happened some time before the opera and need not concern us: all we need to remember is - that bats are those queer creatures that fly by night and that this sparkling operetta deals with their human counterparts. It takes us back, in fact, to nineteenth-century Vienna, a Vienna that faced every political crisis by dancing and revelling and flying by night-which is as sensible a way of facing political crises as any other. ' Die Fledermaus tells us a light-hearted, irresponsible story in which, among other things, a truant husband flirts with his disguised wife at a fancy-dress ball, and Strauss has set it to music as merry as the popping of champagne corks.
— Stephen Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Soprano:
Lorely Dyer
Soprano:
Norah Gruhn
Tenor:
Jan van Der Gucht
Tenor:
Tano Ferendlnos
Tenor:
Geoffrey Dunn
Baritone:
Dennis Bowen
Baritone:
Murray Davies
Chorus-Master:
John Clements
Leader:
Alfred Barker
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Told By:
Stephen Williams
Unknown:
Stephen Williams

with Roderick Jones , Beryl Orde
Dan Donovan , Frank Davison
Dilys Lloyd , Frank James Donald Wells , Sarah Leigh
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
' The Adventures of Tommy Trouble' with Gunstone Jones (Tommy)
E. Eynon Evans (Willie)
Tom Jones (Llew)
W. P. Thomas (Jimmy)
Script by E. Eynon Evans Welsh
Variety Orchestra (Leader, Morgan Lloyd)
Additional scripts by Donald Wells Wallace Towers andProduced by Mat Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Roderick Jones
Unknown:
Beryl Orde
Unknown:
Dan Donovan
Unknown:
Frank Davison
Unknown:
Dilys Lloyd
Unknown:
Frank James
Unknown:
Donald Wells
Unknown:
Sarah Leigh
Unknown:
Gunstone Jones
Unknown:
E. Eynon Evans
Unknown:
Tom Jones
Script By:
E. Eynon
Script By:
Evans Welsh
Unknown:
Donald Wells
Unknown:
Wallace Towers
Produced By:
Mat Jones

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