Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 277,945 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
A Dragon in the Drawing Room, by Ivor Noel Hume
Starting Something New: Wyn Griffith talks about learning to drive a car after fifty years as a cyclist
Looking at Pictures with Mertiyn Levy: six talks on the ideas that produced the great ' Isms' of Modern Art. 2-Pointillism and Cubism
Flying, Continued: Elizabeth Anderson describes the progress she has made since she started flying lessons last year
Serial: Neighbourly Relations ' by Barbara Kaye
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Marjorie Westbury
The second of nine instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Noel Hume
Unknown:
Barbara Kaye
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Read By:
Marjorie Westbury
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A magazine programme presented for family listening by members of the Younger Generation
Hospital Duty Call
Many under-twenties give up some of their leisure time to brighten the lives of patients in hospital and to lend a helping hand to the staff. Parade has sent its commentators to meet them on the job in London. Port Sunlight, Accrington, and Coventry.
Putting the Town on Record
Some months ago members of the Harrow Youth Council decided to undertake a survey of their home town which had recently become a borough. A member of the younger generation who was involved is in the studio to report their progress
Let It Rip
Diana Carter visits Stowmarket. Suffolk, to eavesdrop on rehearsals for the local Boy Scout Gang Show. one that is written, composed, and staged by the local troop and their leaders.
Passed To Yoit
Parade invites you to share the problems of the Barnard family. Opinions. on a postcard please. to Parade. BBC. London. W.l.

The Noël Coward Story-1
Written and narrated by Gordon Glover with Stephen Williams as his guest
The Singers:
Iris Vllliers , Billie Baker
Clarence Wright
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
(Continued in next column)
Musical adviser. Gwen Williams
Produced by Michael North
The world of the theatre without Noël Coward creating his own witty and well-tailored plays, musicals, films, and revues in one corner or another of it, would be no world of the theatre at all to at least two generations. In this, the first of two programmes, something is told of both the Coward of today and" the young man of yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Glover
Unknown:
Stephen Williams
Singers:
Iris Vllliers
Singers:
Billie Baker
Singers:
Clarence Wright
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Produced By:
Michael North

The original tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
[Starring] John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
John Keir Cross
Director:
Martyn C. Webster
Producer:
Harry Alan Towers
Sherlock Holmes:
John Gielgud
Dr Watson:
Ralph Richardson
Miss Violet Smith:
Marjorie Westbury
Carruthers:
John Bushelle
Woodley:
John Carson
Williamson:
Malcolm Hayes

Being a chronicle of the life and misadventures of Anthony Hancock, the celebrated waif.
[Starring] Tony Hancock with Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Simpson
Writer:
Ray Galton
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson
Incidental music composed by:
Wally Stott
Musicians:
The Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Tony:
Tony Hancock
Moira:
Moira Lister
Bill:
Bill Kerr
Sid:
Sidney James

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More