at the Organ of the Plaza Cinema,
Swansea
Conductor, William Pethers from the New Hippodrome Theatre,
Coventry
played by George Mantle-Childe and Tom Bromley
This programme will be repealed on Friday (Midland, 7.30)
A short story written for broadcasting by J. Jefferson Farjeon , read by Carleton Hobbs
J. Jefferson Farjeon can always be relied upon to produce the unexpected climax in his short stories, and in ' Murder over Draughts ' you may expect a surprise of the highest order. The setting is a small London restaurant, and the characters are the narrator and a pate, nervous young man who engages him in a game of draughts, explaining that just such a game resulted an hour or two before in the death of his fellow lodger. The parallels between the two games played are remarkable, though it would take a more than usually acute student of short fiction to discover just why the draughts player is so communicative.
Bernard Goldstein (violin)
Archie Marks (saxophone and clarinet)
Nora Walsh (pianoforte)
Vladimir Rosing (tenor): Gopak ;
The Star ; and Reverie of the Young Peasant (Mussorgsky)
Eileen Joyce (pianoforte): Preludes: In D flat, Op. 32, No. 13-In A flat, Op. 23, No. 8 ; In A minor, Op. 32, No. 8 (Rachmaninoff)
Vladimir Rosing (tenor): Do not depart (Rachmaninoff). Hunger (Cui). Lullaby (Grechaninov)
Claudio Arrau (pianoforte): Islamey (Oriental Fantasy) (Balakirev)
with Renee Barr (soprano)
Robert Keys (pianoforte) Peter Valerio (accordion)
Eric Shrimpton (electric guitar) from the Continental Restaurant,
Bournemouth (Soloist, ROBERT KEYS> )
A one-act play by J. M. Barrie
Cast (Television programme)
with Leon Cortez and his Band of Coster Pals