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A Christmas holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamldn
Free Passport to
Pimlico Paul Dehn looks back on his year's work as film critic for a national newspaper, and tells about some of the snags of getting into cinemas for nothing
Duty Call
You are invited to accompany a BBC mobile recording unit on another holiday exploration
This week : Belgrave Hospital for Children London

Contributors

Produced By:
Lionel Gamldn
Unknown:
Pimlico Paul Dehn

Introduced by Mary Hill
'New Year Greetings from the Farm,' by Eddth Nelder
'So You Marry and Live Happily Ever After?' Nontando Jaibavu describes the views of a polygamous African wife on her monogamous European sister's lot
'Four Brave Husbands': Macdonald Hastings, Jon Farrell, W.P. Matthew, and George Mitchell give some masculine answers to feminine questions
Story: 'Christmas Morning.' Written and read by Frank O'Connor.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Hill
Unknown:
Eddth Nelder
Unknown:
Nontando Jaibavu
Unknown:
MacDonald Hastings
Unknown:
Jon Farreu
Unknown:
W. P. Matthew
Unknown:
George Mitchell
Read By:
Frank O'Connor.

A new radio version by John Keir Cross
Written as a serial in four parts
Part 1
Story presented by Wallace Geoffrey
Concertina player, Alf Edwards Production by Ayton Whitaker

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Presented By:
Wallace Geoffrey
Unknown:
Alf Edwards
Production By:
Ayton Whitaker
Father Robinson:
Eric Portman
Mother Robinson:
Dorothy Smith
Fritz:
Peter Scott
Ernest:
Theo Bryan
Jack:
Paul Medland
Francis:
William Strange
Ship's captain:
Duncan McIntyre
Helmsman:
Eric Anderson

with Harold Berens , Leon Cortez
Miriam Karlin , Eric Phillips
Stephen Jack , Arthur Haynes
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Femoulhet
Script by Ronnie Hanbury Production by George Inns

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Berens
Unknown:
Leon Cortez
Unknown:
Miriam Karlin
Unknown:
Eric Phillips
Unknown:
Stephen Jack
Unknown:
Arthur Haynes
Conducted By:
Paul Femoulhet
Script By:
Ronnie Hanbury
Production By:
George Inns

by Warwick Deeping Dramatised for radio as a serial by John Watt
Part7
Music specially composed by Henry Reed and played by a section of the BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
Produced by.Ayton Whitaker

Contributors

Unknown:
Warwick Deeping
Unknown:
John Watt
Composed By:
Henry Reed
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
Produced By:
Ayton Whitaker
Thomas Roland:
James McKechnie
Stephen Sorrell:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Kit Sorrell:
Alastair Duncan
Mary Jewett:
Patricia Kennedy
Porter (Hodges):
Stanley Groome
Holmes:
Eric Anderson
Cherry Roland:
Marjorie Westbury
Simon Orange:
Colin Gordon
Maid:
Denise Bryer
Maurice Pentreath:
Roger Snowdon
Perdita Pentreath:
Margaret Vines
Chauffeur:
Ronald Sidney
Sir Ormsby Gaunt:
Martin Lewis

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by A. G. Street
Graham Hutton
Julian Huxley , D.sc.
Lewis Hastings
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Den Pavilion, Teignmouth
Produced by Nicholas Crocker

Contributors

Unknown:
A. G. Street
Unknown:
Graham Hutton
Unknown:
Julian Huxley
Unknown:
Lewis Hastings
Unknown:
Freddy Grisewood
Produced By:
Nicholas Crocker

Calling all square dancers
Come in neighbours and take your chairs.
Tonight's the night for calling squares, Take your partner by the hand
And dance to the music of Cardew's
Band
Music by Phil Cardew 's Cornhuskers with The Maple Leaf Four
The Tanner Sisters and the Hoedowners
Caller, David Miller

Contributors

Music By:
Phil Cardew
Unknown:
David Miller

Light Programme

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