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Overture "Plymouth Hoe" (Ansell); Selection, "A to Z" (Novello); Sydney Lewis (bass), "Gypsy john" (Clay); "Border Ballad" (Cowen); Richard Merriman (solo cornet), and orchestra, "I Dream of a Garden of Sunshine" (Lohr); Edith James (songs at the piano), "Sybil" (Naish); "Hurricane History" (Cecil); Orchestra, Selection, "The Beggar's Opera" (Austin); Sydney Lewis, "Brian of Glanaar" (Graham); Edith James, "We've Insured Father" (Richards); Orchestra, "The Little Clock on the Mantel" (Wheeler), "Hunting Scene" (Bucalossi)

A drama two acts written by Lester Bidston and presented by Sydney Russell. Characters: Prince Shen Yan (A Chinese tyrant, Ruler of Shensi), Sydney Russell; Creong Foo (A Preist of Buddha), Stuart Vinden; Creong Chi (Foo's twelve-year-old daughter), Mary Brotherton; Shen Win (The Prince's witless child, of Chi's age, she is completely under the spell of Foo), Mary Brotherton; Lao (Shen Yan's Jackal), Joseph Lewis. Incidental music by the Station Orchestra

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While most of the data in the BBC’s Programme Index is drawn from Radio Times and BBC programmes pages, a minority of listings have been compiled using the BBC’s own historical documents and early BBC listings printed in contemporary newspapers.