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A Christmas holiday programme

Close-Up On Carolina
Edward Ward picks out the highlights of a recent visit to North Carolina and plays you some of the recordings he made with boys and girls of The 'Four H's' Club

Duty Call
A holiday exploration with Bertie Chapman and a BBC mobile recording unit
Today: The Lightship and Coastguard Services

Contributors

Editor:
Lionel Gamlin
Reporter (Close-Up on Carolina):
Edward Ward
Reporter (Duty Call):
Bertie Chapman

A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Mary Hill and including
'Goodbye to All This': a talk by Catherine King who is going back to Australia after a year in England
'Speaking from Experience': the first of a new series of talks by Marian Cutler
'Rooming-in in the Maternity Hospital,' by a doctor
Poems for a January day, selected and presented by Georgie Henschel
Serial: "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. Abridged by Nancy Pusey. Read by Carleton Hobbs

Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Hill
Speaker:
Catherine King
Speaker:
Marian Cutler
Reader:
Georgie Henschel
Author (Middlemarch):
George Eliot
Abridged by (Middlemarch):
Nancy Pusey
Reader (Middlemarch):
Carleton Hobbs

A new radio version by John Keir Cross
Written as a serial in four parts
[Starring] Eric Portman
(BBC recording)
(Eric Portman is appearing in "His Excellency" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
John Keir Cross
Producer:
Ayton Whittaker
Concertina player:
Alf Edwards
Story presented by:
Valentine Dyall
Father Robinson:
Eric Portman
Mother Robinson:
Dorothy Smith
Fritz:
Peter Scott
Ernest:
Theo Bryan
Jack:
Paul Medland
Francis:
William Strange
Jenny:
Denise Bryer

[Starring] Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss
with Harold Berens, Leon Cortez, Miriam Karlin, Eric Phillips, Stephen Jack, Arthur Haynes
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby
(BBC recording)

(Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss are appearing in "Babes in the Wood" at the London Palladium; Leon Cortez is appearing in "Goody Two Shoes" at the London Casino)

Contributors

Comedian:
Jimmy Jewel
Comedian:
Ben Warriss
Performer:
Harold Berens
Performer:
Leon Cortez
Performer:
Miriam Karlin
Performer:
Eric Phillips
Performer:
Stephen Jack
Performer:
Arthur Haynes
Musicians:
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor:
Robert Busby
Production:
George Inns

by Warwick Deeping
Dramatised for radio as a serial in nine parts by John Watt
[Starring] Howard Marion-Crawford and James McKechnie
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Author:
Warwick Deeping
Dramatised by:
John Watt
Music specially composed by:
Henry Reed
Music played by:
A section of the BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins
Producer:
Ayton Whitaker
Thomas Roland:
James McKechnie
Stephen Sorrell:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Cherry Roland:
Marjorie Westbury
Kit:
Alastair Duncan
Housekeeper:
Susan Richards
Porter:
Harry Hutchinson
Simon Orange:
Colin Gordon
Molly Pentreath:
Muriel Russell
Tramp:
Ronald Sidney
Doctor:
Bryan Powley

Light Programme

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