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An Easter holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Holiday Tour
1-A Perfumery
Bernard Lyons takes you on the first of three holiday tours around unusual places of interest
Today you hear all about the work in the laboratory of a famous cosmetic firm
Mystery Express
Once again Marcel Stellman invites you to go aboard his Mystery Express for a lightning musical tour around the world. When the express stops, it is up to you to recognise the name of the country from the music and speech you hear. The only luggage you need is a pencil and some paper
' Glad to Meet You '
Wynford Vaughan Thomas tells you about some of the places he saw and some of the people he met on his recent journey round Britain

Contributors

Produced By:
Lionel Gamlin

Conductor, Mansel Thomas
Peter Warlock had all the real antiquarian's delight in finding such buried treasures as the quaint old book on which the ' Capriol ' Suite is founded. It is an early work on dancing by a sixteenth-century priest who took the name of Arbeau-so old that the very names of most of the dances have vanished from modern ken.

Contributors

Conductor:
Mansel Thomas

Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Your Worry': Marion Cutler answers some miscellaneous questions which listeners have sent her during the past few weeks
' Looking After Your Baby,' by Sister Margaret F. Myles , s.R.N., S.C.M. 4 — ' Why Baby Cries '
' On Doing Things Alone,' by Elizabeth Goodchild
' Seeing the Buyers ' : Claire Drew talks of her experiences as a commercial traveller
Serial: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' by Betty Smith. Abridged by Ara Calder-Marshall. Read by Peggy Hassard

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Margaret F. Myles
Unknown:
Elizabeth Goodchild
Talks:
Claire Drew
Unknown:
Betty Smith.
Read By:
Peggy Hassard

Excerpts from three successes
In the West End of London
The Adelphl for Jack Buchanan In
' Castle in the Air' by Alan Melville with Coral Browne , Irene Manning
William Kendall , Ewan Roberts
Play directed by Roy Rich
Presented by Jack Buchanan and Stanley French

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Buchanan
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Coral Browne
Unknown:
Irene Manning
Unknown:
William Kendall
Unknown:
Ewan Roberts
Directed By:
Roy Rich
Presented By:
Jack Buchanan
Presented By:
Stanley French

by Philip King
with Olga Lindo, Richard Goolden, Beryl Mason, Richard Littledale, Diana King, Christopher Hewett, Mary Kimber, Ivan Staff, Patricia Page, Leslie Phillips

Play produced by Henry Kendall and Shaun Sutton
Presented by Peter Dearing

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip King
Unknown:
Olga Lindo
Unknown:
Richard Goolden
Unknown:
Beryl Mason
Unknown:
Richard Littledale
Unknown:
Diana King
Unknown:
Christopher Hewett
Unknown:
Mary Kimber
Unknown:
Ivan Staff
Unknown:
Patricia Page
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Produced By:
Henry Kendall
Produced By:
Shaun Sutton
Presented By:
Peter Dearing

Created and produced by Robert Nesbitt with Sylvie St. Clair
Les Compagnons de la Chanson
Debroy Somers and his Continental Music
Presented by Tom Arnold and Emile Littler
Commentators, Alan Melville Brian Johnston , John Ellison
, Pictures on page

Contributors

Produced By:
Robert Nesbitt
Unknown:
Sylvie St. Clair
Presented By:
Tom Arnold
Presented By:
Emile Littler
Commentators:
Alan Melville
Commentators:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
John Ellison

A Philip Odell serial
In eight episodes by Lester Powell
1—'Mother is Worried!
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Lester Powell
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Philip Odell:
Robert Beatty
Heather McMara:
Joyce Heron
Syd Buxter:
Roy Plomley
Carlo Pinzini:
Robert Rietty
Mrs Melvin:
Nora Nicholson
Ella:
Olive Kirby
Receptionist:
Marjorle Westbury
An actor:
Jack Williams

Light Programme

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