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A Comic Opera by Isaac Beckerstaffe.
Music by Dibdin, Orchestrated by Alfred Reynolds.
Special Chamber Orchestra under the direction of and conducted by Alfred Reynolds

Contributors

Author:
Isaac Beckerstaffe
Music:
null Dibdin
Orchestrations/Musical Director/Conductor:
Alfred Reynolds
Colonel Oldboy:
Nigel Playfair
Lionel:
George Bishop
Mr Jessamy:
Rupert Bruce
Harman:
Ivan Samson
Jenkins:
George Bishop
Clarissa:
Olive Groves
Diana:
Stella Seager

The Wireless Orchestra
Conducted by John Ansell
Overture, The Merry Wives of Windsor...Nicolai

10.15 Reginald Whitehead (bass)
"Border Ballad"...Cowen
"Beware of the Maidens"...M. Craske Day
"Off to Philadelphia"... Haynes

10.24 The Orchestra
Selection, "The Tales of Hoffman"...Offenbach

10.30 approx. James Bernard in "The Burning of 'Boney'"
An Episode of English Village Life 100 years ago, from "The Dynasts," Thomas Hardy
Characters (all of which are played by James Bernard):
A Rustic. Solomon Longways, a Yeoman. Private Cantle. The Vicar. A Coachman. A Woman (with song "My Love's Gone A-fighting")

Reginald Whitehead
"The Song of the Bow"...Aylward
"Love, Could I Only Tell Thee"...Capel
"I Am a Roamer"...Mendelssohn

The Orchestra
"Entrance of the Boyards"...Halvorsen

Contributors

Musicians:
The Wireless Orchestra
Conductor:
John Ansell

2LO London

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