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including:
Ethel Mannin continues her diary
How I Serve Herrings: by Patty Fisher
My Accent's An Asset: some views on the way they speak by Helen Mac-Gregor from Scotland, Angela Kent from Yorkshire, Franciska Frandsen from Denmark, and Rita Udall from the U.S.A.
Flower of the Month: Norman Liver-man talks about Sweet Peas
Serial: ' Trial by Sasswood ' by Esther Warner
Abridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Grizelda Hervey
The seventh of fifteen instalments
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Ethel Mannin
Unknown:
Patty Fisher
Unknown:
Helen Mac-Gregor
Unknown:
Angela Kent
Unknown:
Franciska Frandsen
Unknown:
Rita Udall
Unknown:
Esther Warner
Abridged By:
Terry Gompertz
Read By:
Grizelda Hervey
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A personal choice of popular music that has brought happiness over the years to
Yvonne Amaud who introduces the programme
Patricia Bartlett
Laurie Payne
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
London Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Sidney Sax)
Conducted by Mark Lubbock
Programme written by Roy Plomley
Produced by Michael North
(Patricia Bartlett broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.)

Contributors

Unknown:
Yvonne Amaud
Unknown:
Patricia Bartlett
Unknown:
Laurie Payne
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Conducted By:
Mark Lubbock
Written By:
Roy Plomley
Produced By:
Michael North
Produced By:
Patricia Bartlett

A serial by Elleston Trevor
Adapted from the novel by Simon Rattray
4 — 'The Dead Starling'
In which Hugo Bishop encounters a dead cat and a dead starling.
Other parts played by Michael Turner and Manning Wilson
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Novel By:
Simon Rattray
Played By:
Michael Turner
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Vic Levinson:
Virginia Winter
Hugo Bishop:
Robert Eddison
Derek Veiss:
Paul Hansard
Detective Inspector Frisnay:
Raf de la Torre
Sergeant Flack:
James Thomason
Mrs Veiss:
Sybil Rares
Major Craddock:
Austin Trevor
Georgina Hutton:
Mary Wimbush
Gorry:
Noel Hood

[Starring] Tony Hancock with Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Andree Melly
also featuring Kenneth Williams
The Hancock Theme and other incidental music composed by Wally Stott
The Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Composed By:
Wally Stott
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Written By:
Alan Simpson
Written By:
Ray Galton
Produced By:
Dennis Main Wilson

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About this data

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