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An Avuncular Revue.
Artists: John Henry and Blossom (Entertainers), Yvette (Entertainer)
The 5WA Choir
The Station Staff
The Station Orchestra
Conductor, Warwick Braithwaite

I. Uncle Warwick Doles Out Some Soothing Syrup to a Chorus of Uncles and Aunts.

II. An Avuncular Interview
Scene. The Chief Uncle's Lair. Would-be Uncles and Aunts are interviewed.
The Ideal Uncle, the Ideal Aunt, Uncle Sam, Aunt Yvette, Uncle John Henry and Aunty Blossom.
The Ideal Uncle and the Ideal Aunt Find their Ideals, and Aunt Yvette Finds John Henry.

IV. Routine Work
Scene. The Studio during the Hour of the Kiddiewinks, into which Auntie Macassar's Tea-Time Talk has Overflowed.
Uncle Norman and Cousin Dorothy Dutifully Duet.

VI. Not Meant for The Microphone
Scene. The Board Room.
Yvette on the Vamp tells John Henry How to Be Happy Tho' Married - Until Aunty Blossom Blossoms Forth as an Aunt-Agonist.
"Playing at Soldiers"; "Birds in the Woods"; "Merry Games (Mulberry Bush)"; "A Tale at Twilight"; "Oranges and Lemons".

VIII. An Idyll
Scene. Beneath the Shade of the Studio Palms.
The Ideal Uncle Idolizes the Ideal Aunt and Says So with Music - An Interruption by "Spick and Span".

X. Infant Welfare
Scene. The Nursery.

XI. The Women's Hour
Scene. The Aunts' Ante-room.
The Aunts' Union is Formed.

("Lullaby")

XIII. Music Hath Charms
Scene. The Studio.
Uncle John Henry Urges the Uncles to Sing Something and the Aunts to Sing Something and the Band to Play Something which turns out to be The Grand Finale.

Contributors

Entertainers:
John Henry and Blossom
Entertainer:
null Yvette
Singers:
The 5WA Choir
Musicians:
The Station Orchestra
Conductor:
Warwick Braithwaite

5WA Cardiff

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