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from Scotland
The Old and the New
Introduced by Patrick Hogg and including
' The Washing House': Mary Simpson remembers days gone by in ' the house outside the house '
' The Backward Wife': Winifred Bannister, lost among some of today's kitchen gadgets
' Hallowe'en Party ': Marian McNeill tells the story of Hallowe'en and suggests how to organise the children's party
' Burmese Wedding': F. P. Huggins describes another kind of party
' Beginning ' : Ann Maxwell describes her feelings at the start of a career
' Pot-Pourri ': an old idea brought up to date by Marian Henderson
' Scalloway ' : Mrs. George Pottinger, who has lived all her life in the little town of Scalloway in Shetland, looks back
' Music of Scotland': the story of some songs
' Country Landlady': Sybil J. Swann from Deeside
Serial: ' To Let Furnished,' by Josephine Bell. Abridged by Michael Bell. Read by Patience Collier

Contributors

Introduced By:
Patrick Hogg

A series of four sound-pictures of the younger generation at home and abroad
1—' Meet Us In Bethnal Green '
A group of under-twenties-recorded at their jobs, in their homes, in clubs, shops, and at street corners-describe, while they do them, the things you might be doing on Friday and Saturday if you were an under-twenty in this part of the world
Devised and compiled by Tony Gibson

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Gibson

Introduced by Richard Murdoch, Kenneth Horne and Sam Costa
The Singers Alma Cogan, The Merrymakers
Guest Comedian Max Bygraves
Show Time
Excerpts and stars from new films
Novelty Corner
Introducing Forces to the Forces and Sirdani, the 'Gulli-Gulli Man'
Solo pianist Nina Milkina
The Peter Knight Singers
Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont and Frank Hooper

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Murdoch
Introduced By:
Kenneth Home
Introduced By:
Sam Costa
Singer:
Alma Cogan
Singers:
The Merrymakers
Magician:
Sirdani, the 'Gulli-Gulli Man'
Pianist:
Nina Milkina
Conducted By:
Stanley Black
Script:
Bob Monkhouse
Script:
Denis Goodwin
Producer:
Leslie Bridgmont
Producer:
Frank Hooper

Paris and Vienna
The story of a musical rivalry that spanned a century summed up in the lives of Johann Strauss , the ' waltz king,' Jacques Offenbach , composer of ' Tales of Hoffmann,' and Johann Strauss II, composer of ' The Blue Danube'
Fourth of eight weekly programmes
Una Hale
Janet Howe Robert Edy
Anlon Young
BBC Chorus
Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter with Keith Pyott as the Voice ot Paris and Rudolph Offenbach as the Voice of Vienna
Written by Maurice Gorham
Devised by Kenneth Pakeman
Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith and Kenneth Pakeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Jacques Offenbach
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Una Hale
Unknown:
Janet Howe
Unknown:
Robert Edy
Unknown:
Anlon Young
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Gilbert Vinter
Unknown:
Keith Pyott
Unknown:
Rudolph Offenbach
Written By:
Maurice Gorham
Unknown:
Kenneth Pakeman
Produced By:
Malcolm Baker-Smith
Produced By:
Kenneth Pakeman

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