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A summer holiday programme
Edited by Lionel Gamlin
Life's One Long Holiday
1-A BBC commentator
Richard Dimbleby takes you behind the scenes and tells you about some of the difficulties experienced by the radio commentator
Let's Have Some Music
The Michael Krein Saxophone Quartet, with Ernest Butcher doing his best to get a song in sideways

Contributors

Edited By:
Lionel Gamlin
Commentator:
Richard Dimbleby
Unknown:
Michael Krein Saxophone

Introduced by Olive Shapley
' How Can I Get to Know People?' by Dorothy Keat
' Having a Baby,' by Maeve Kenny , F.R.C.O.G.
' Talking and Playing': Olive Zorian brings her violin to the studio
' A Visit to an Eskimo Home,' by Minnie Hackett , a Canadian Public Health nurse.
' Married to an Armchair Sportsman,' by Kathleen Robinson
Serial: Jenny Villiers ' by J. B. Priestley. Abridged by Honor Wyatt. Read by Mary O'Farrell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Dorothy Keat
Unknown:
Maeve Kenny
Unknown:
Olive Zorian
Unknown:
Minnie Hackett
Unknown:
Kathleen Robinson
Unknown:
Jenny Villiers
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley.
Read By:
Mary O'Farrell

A serial play adapted from L. A. Knight 's novel by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
1-' Fox Pit Hall'
Produced by Dafydd Gruffydd

Contributors

Unknown:
L. A. Knight
Produced By:
Dafydd Gruffydd
Riding Officer Shell:
Ivor Maddox
Sarah Pitt Royden:
Vera Meazey
Jonathan Pitt Royden:
Tom Jones
Absolom Pitt Royden:
Norman Wynne
Hippy Scandrett:
Donald Wells
Stephen St Helier:
John Darran
Mrs Maggs:
Dorothy Champion

Another incident in the career of Police - Constable Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby
Script by Alan Stranks
Produced by Vernon Harris
' The Case of the Crimson Band '
(The recorded broadcast in the Home Service on June 6)
(Brian Reece broadcasts by permission of C. B. Cochran )

Contributors

Unknown:
Constable Archibald
Script By:
Alan Stranks
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Unknown:
Brian Reece
Unknown:
B. Cochran
p C 49:
Brian Reece
Joan Carr:
Joy Shelton
Divisional Detective-Inspector Wilson:
Leslie Perrins
Detective-Sgt Wright:
Eric Phillips
Sir Julian Gaunt K c:
Deryek Guyler
Colin Mayne:
Carl Bernard
Monica Dare:
June Bardsley
Professor Morrow:
Philip King
Fellowes:
Lockwood West
A tramp:
Philip Ray

with Kenneth Horne
Sam Costa
Maurice Denham
Maureen Riscoe
Helen Hill
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black Script by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Sam Costa
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Maureen Riscoe
Unknown:
Helen Hill
Conducted By:
Stanley Black
Script By:
Richard Murdoch
Produced By:
Leslie Bridgmont

by Baroness Orczy
Adapted by Lester Powell as a serial in six episodes
1 - ' The Pimpernel at Work '
The action takes place at Paris, Dover, and Richmond in the year 1792
Incidental music arranged and conducted by Alan Paul
Produced by Archie Campbell , who writes on page 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Orczy
Adapted By:
Lester Powell
Conducted By:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Sir Percy Blakeney, Bt:
Marius Goring
Lady Blakeney (formerly Marguerite St Just):
Catherine Salkeld
Chauvelin:
Geoffrey Wincott
Friends of- Sir Percy: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes:
Andrew Faulds
Lord Antony Dewhurst:
Michael Anthony
Comtesse de Tourney, a refugee from France:
Selma Vazdias
Armand St Just (Lady Blakeney's brother):
Peter Carrforster
Desgas (Chauvelin's confidential secretary):
Bill Staughton
Jellyband, host of ' The Fisherman's Rest:
Ernest Sefton
Republican Guards: Sergeant Bibot:
Richard Williams
Sergeant Grospierre:
Bryan Powley
Captain of the Guard:
Richard Williams
An old Frenchwoman:
Dorothy Summers
A farmer:
Stanley Groome
Storyteller:
Alec Ross

Light Programme

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