Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 293,318 playable programmes from the BBC

including
Twopence to Save and Twopence to Spend ...? a group of speakers compare notes on children's pocket money
Jim Middleton answers some gardening queries
Conversations with Jean Conil : 4—' Cooking with Tomatoes '
The Outsider: Mrs. Cherry Squire talks about an orphan's stay with her family
Serial: ' A Murder is Announced' by Agatha Christie
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Mary Wimbush
Seventh of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Middleton
Unknown:
Jean Conil
Talks:
Mrs. Cherry Squire
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Abridged By:
Eve Howland
Read By:
Mary Wimbush
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

celebrate their Silver Wedding Anniversary (1930-1955)
with some of the friends who have influenced, or been associated with, their lives and careers

The man of letters - J.B. Priestley

The man of 'parts' - Eric Portman

From the Variety Theatre and Pantomime
Vera Lynn, Turner Layton, Beryl Reid, Rawicz and Landauer, Gwladys Stanley Laidler, Billy Danvers, Dorothy Ward, Shaun Glenville

From BBC Sound Broadcasting and Television
H. Rooney Pelletier (Controller, Light Programme), John Coatman (Former North Regional Controller), John Snagge, Geoffrey Bridson, Jan Bussell, Barney Colehan and Nan Macdonald, Brian Tesler (Producer of 'Ask Pickles'), Larry and Pauline Forrester, Pamela Russell

The man who introduced Wilfred to Mabel, Arthur Belt

The man who sold the wedding ring, Daniel Williams

The lady who made the wedding dress, Mrs. Edith Arcari

and the two people who know them best - Wilfred's Mother, Mrs. Margaret Pickles, Mabel's Mother, Mrs. Catherine Myerscough

Flashbacks from three famous plays starring Wilfred Pickles:
'Cure for Love' (his first West End appearance) with Marjorie Rhodes and Rene Ray
'Hobson's Choice' (his record-breaking run at Blackpool) with Pauline Jameson and Rosemary Davis
'The Gay Dog' (his most recent stage success) with Nuna Davy, Brian Trueman, and David King-Wood
Dramatic sequences directed by Frederick Bradnum

BBC Variety Orchestra directed by Paul Fenoulhet
Narrator, Frederick Allen
Script written by Gale Pedrick
Produced by Alfred Dunning and Stephen Renaud Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Eric Portman
Unknown:
Vera Lynn.
Unknown:
Turner Layton
Unknown:
Beryl Reid.
Unknown:
H. Rooney Pelletier
Unknown:
John Coatman
Unknown:
John Snagge
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bridson
Unknown:
Jan Bussell
Unknown:
Barney Colehan
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
Unknown:
Brian Tesler
Unknown:
Pauline Forrester
Unknown:
Pamela Russell
Unknown:
Mabel Arthur.
Unknown:
Daniel Williams
Unknown:
Mother Mrs.
Unknown:
Margaret Pickles
Unknown:
Mother Mrs.
Unknown:
Catherine Myerscough
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Marjorie Rhodes
Unknown:
Rene Ray
Unknown:
Pauline Jameson
Unknown:
Rosemary Davis
Unknown:
Nuna Davy
Unknown:
Brian Trueman
Unknown:
David King-Wood
Directed By:
Frederick Bradnum
Directed By:
Paul Fenoulhet
Narrator:
Frederick Allen
Written By:
Gale Pedrick
Produced By:
Alfred Dunning
Produced By:
Stephen Renaud Williams

by Henry Cecil
3-The Court of Criminal Appeal
A series of documentary programmes in which the author follows the course of a murder trial through various stages from the Magistrate's Court to the House of Lords, with dramatic illustrations.
Narrators: Norman Shelley and Ronald Simpson
Cast:
Ella Milne , Mary O'Farrell
Wilfred Babbage. David Bird
Tony Van den Bergh , Hamilton Dyce
Charles Lamb , Charles Maunsell
Leslie Perrins. and Geoffrey Wincott
Produced by Eileen Molony

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Narrators:
Norman Shelley
Narrators:
Ronald Simpson
Unknown:
Ella Milne
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Unknown:
Wilfred Babbage.
Unknown:
David Bird
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Hamilton Dyce
Unknown:
Charles Lamb
Unknown:
Charles Maunsell
Unknown:
Leslie Perrins.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wincott
Produced By:
Eileen Molony

escorted by John Cazabon , John Forde
Kenneth Connor
The Nicholodeons
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Script by Sid Colin , Eddie Maguire and Ronald Wolfe
Produced by Charles Maxwell

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cazabon
Unknown:
John Forde
Unknown:
Kenneth Connor
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Script By:
Sid Colin
Script By:
Eddie Maguire
Script By:
Ronald Wolfe
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell

Light Programme

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