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A summer holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Midsummer Madness
Twenty very odd minutes of comic verse and merry music
Readers:
Betty Hardy , Elizabeth,
Geoffrey and Lionel
Musicians:
The London Bassoon Trio:
Archie Camden Edward Wilson Tom Wightman
Life's One Long Holiday
3-A British Railways Dining-car Attendant
Leonard Hooper , a twenty-three-year-old dining-car attendant, tells you something about his work on long-distance train journeys, especially during the holiday peak periods

Contributors

Produced By:
Lionel Gamlin
Readers:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Archie Camden
Unknown:
Edward Wilson
Unknown:
Tom Wightman
Unknown:
Leonard Hooper

Introduced by Olive Shapley
'I- Like Filling in Forms,' by. Rosaline Viney
' Having a Baby' by Maeve Kenny , F.R.C.O.G.
' Talking and Playing': Victoria Kingsley sings to her own accompaniment on the guitar
' We hadn't a sideboard': Nell Bland of Bradford tells how she rebelled against monotony in her life
' Being a Twin,' by Eleanor Hewitt-Myring
Serial: ' I Capture the Castle ' by Dodie Smith. Abridged by Nan Saunders. Read by Daphne Oxenford

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Rosaline Viney
Unknown:
Maeve Kenny
Unknown:
Victoria Kingsley
Unknown:
Eleanor Hewitt-Myring
Unknown:
Dodie Smith.
Abridged By:
Nan Saunders.
Read By:
Daphne Oxenford

A serial play adapted from L. A. Knight 's novel by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
3 — ' The Last Run'
Produced by Dafydd Gruffydd

Contributors

Unknown:
L. A. Knight
Produced By:
Dafydd Gruffydd
Sarah Pitt-Royden:
Vera Meazey
Jonathan Pitt-Royden:
Tom Jones
Absolom Pitt-Royden:
Norman Wynne
Hippy Scandrett:
Donald Wells
Riding Officer Shell:
Ivor Maddox
Stephen St Heller:
John Darran
Guy Rivers:
Arthur Phillips
George Belpher:
Peter Gyngell
Gomer Grifflths:
David Close-Thomas
Price, the Fish:
W P Thomas
Pugh:
Dafydd Havard
Mrs Maggs:
Dorothy Champion

Harry Secombe
Adelaide Hall (with Don Lorusso )
Michael Howard
David Buchan
Maudie Edwards
The Radio Revellers
Maurice Keary
The George Mitchell Choir
Cicely Courtneidge
(with Thorley Walters )
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell
Master of Ceremonies: Flotsam (B. C. Hilliam )
Produced by Tom Ronald and John Simmonds

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Lorusso
Unknown:
Michael Howard
Unknown:
David Buchan
Unknown:
Maudie Edwards
Unknown:
Maurice Keary
Unknown:
George Mitchell Choir
Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Thorley Walters
Conductor:
Frank Cantell
Unknown:
C. Hilliam
Produced By:
Tom Ronald
Produced By:
John Simmonds

by Baroness Orczy
Adapted by Lester Powell as a serial in six episodes
3— 'One o'Clock Precisely'
(Continued in next column)
Others taking part: Charles Mortimer , and Janet Morrison
The action takes place in London and Richmond in September 1792
Incidental music arranged and conducted by Alan Paul Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Orczy
Adapted By:
Lester Powell
Unknown:
Charles Mortimer
Unknown:
Janet Morrison
Conducted By:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Sir Percy Blakeney, Bt:
Marius Goring
Lady Blakeney (formerly Marguerite St. Just):
Catherine Salkeld
Chauvelin (Accredited Agent of the French Republic):
Geoffrey Wincott
Comtesse de Tournay, a refugee from France:
Selma Vaz Dias
Louise, maid to Lady Blakeney:
Pamela Hawker
Chef d'orchestre:
Theodore Bikel
Guests at Lord Grenville's ball:
David Enders,
Guests at Lord Grenville's ball:
Ella Milne
Coachman:
Frank Atkinson
Storyteller:
Alec Ross

Light Programme

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More