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A summer holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Unusual Holidays
3-Railway Camp Coaches
Eleanor Tompkins suggests a very unusual but very exciting camping holiday
Songs from Benjamin Britten 's
' Friday Afternoons '
(First broadcast in the Children's Hour on May 18)
Autograph Album
Each week a well-known visitor signs the Autograph Album and remembers a school holiday of long ago. Today: Noel Streatfeild

Contributors

Produced By:
Lionel Gamlin
Unknown:
Eleanor Tompkins
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Noel Streatfeild

Introduced by Barbara McFadyean
' Taking Off the Honey Crop,' by Reginald Gamble
'Women I've Met': Elspeth Chisholm of the International Service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation talks about her programme ' Women in the New World.'
' Wife to Thomas Carlyle ,' by Kay Dick
Jane Welsh Carlyle was one of the wittiest letter-writers of the nineteenth century. She had no easy life married to a brilliant temperamental husband but her letters give a good picture of her as a careful housewife, a clever hostess, and an entertaining person.
Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial: ' Wives and Daughters ' by Mrs. Gaskell. Abridged by Evelyn Howland. Read by Ysanne Churchman

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barbara McFadyean
Unknown:
Elspeth Chisholm
Unknown:
Thomas Carlyle
Unknown:
Kay Dick
Unknown:
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Abridged By:
Evelyn Howland.
Read By:
Ysanne Churchman

Stewart MacPherson puts all thf questions, and Harold Berens , Gladys Hay , and Michael Moore know none of the answers
The Soup Stains
The Foulharmonic Orchestra
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by George Inns

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart MacPherson
Unknown:
Harold Berens
Unknown:
Gladys Hay
Unknown:
Michael Moore
Script By:
Ronnie Hanbury
Script By:
George Wadmore
Produced By:
George Inns

with Marion Davies
Bryn Calvin-Thomas
Dan Donovan , Frank Davison
Dilys Lloyd , Frank James
Donald Wells , Sarah Leigh
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
* The Adventures of Tommy Trouble' *
Script by E. Eynon Evans Welsh Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Morgan Lloyd)
Additional script by Donald Wells and Wallace Towers
Produced by Mai Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Marion Davies
Unknown:
Bryn Calvin-Thomas
Unknown:
Dan Donovan
Unknown:
Frank Davison
Unknown:
Dilys Lloyd
Unknown:
Frank James
Unknown:
Donald Wells
Unknown:
Sarah Leigh
Script By:
E. Eynon Evans
Script By:
Donald Wells
Unknown:
Wallace Towers
Produced By:
Mai Jones

A serial in two parts from the book by Christianna Brand
Adapted by the author from a dramatised version in French by Paul Alexandre /
Part 2
Plays produced by Ayton Whitaker

Contributors

Book By:
Christianna Brand
Unknown:
Paul Alexandre
Produced By:
Ayton Whitaker
Detective-Inspector Charlesworth:
Hugh Latimer
Sergeant Bedd:
George Merritt
Chief Superintendent:
Tristan Rawson
Mrs. Harris:
Barbara Trevor
Irene Best:
Betty Baskcomb
Victoria David:
Catherine Campbell
Rachel Gay:
Joyce Marwood
Magda Doon:
Joan Hart
Mr Cecil:
Richard Hurndall
Agnes Gregory:
Jean Anderson
Mr Bateman:
Lee Fox
Nurse:
Thea Wells
Attendant:
Charles Lefeaux
Medium:
Ella Milne
Accomplice:
Andrew Churchman
Taxi-driver:
David Stringer

by Arnold Bennett
Adapted by Michael Black
10—' Finale'
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Adapted By:
Michael Black
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Evelyn Orcham:
Richard Hurndall
Mr Cousin:
Basil Dawson
Gracie Savott:
Peggy Cameron
Sir Henry Savott:
Gordon McCleod
Miss Cass:
Betty Hardy
Violet Powler:
Beryl Calder
Beatrice Noakes:
Elsa Palmer
Ceria:
Alastair Duncan
Agatha:
Betty Baskcomb

Light Programme

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