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or 'Cashiered for His Country'
An Unlikely Tale of the Crimean War

Set to music by Walter Leigh
The book by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley and Scobie MacKenzie
The lyrics by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley

Characters in the order of their appearance:
Aunt Adelaide; Miss de Lacy; Millicent Blazes; General Sir Joshua Blazes; The Prime Minister; Launcelot Brown; Captain Rudolph de Vavasour
The Wireless Chorus and the B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate

Act I. The General's house in London
Act II. The garden of the General's country house

(Daventry National Programme)

Contributors

Music:
Walter Leigh
Book/Lyrics:
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
Book:
Scobie MacKenzie
Singers:
The Wireless Chorus
Musicians:
The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra
Conductor:
Leslie Woodgate
Producer:
Gordon McConnell

Relayed from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Scene I. A wooded place on the Rhine
Scene II. Gunther's Hall
(Daventry National Programme)
(to 23.20)

Contributors

Conductor:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Woglinde (Rhine Maidens):
Thea Philips
Wellgunde (Rhine Maidens):
Betty Thompson
Flosshilde (Rhine Maidens):
Gladys Palmer
Siegfried:
Lauritz Melchior
Hagen:
Otto Helcers
Gunther:
Friedrich Schorr
Gutrune:
Odette de Foras
Brunnhilde:
Frida Leider

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