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by Vernon Scannell
The verse narration spoken by VERNON SCANNELL
Vernon Scannell was once a first-class amateur boxer. In this programme he remembers the nervous ordeal that he faced as a youth of sixteen waiting to box in the final bout of the Junior Amateur Championships held in a famous London stadium of the thirties. He remembers, too, another fight: the conflict between two aspects of his temperament-the aspiring poet and the aspiring pugilist. Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Third broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Spoken By:
Vernon Scannell
Spoken By:
Vernon Scannell
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Jack, the trainer:
Deryck Guyler
Father:
Jack Shaw
Mother:
Kathleen Helme
Schoolmaster:
Geoffrey Wincott
Spectator:
Charles Leno

HEATHER HARPER (soprano) JOHANNA PETERS (contralto) GERALD ENGLISH (tenor) BRUCE BOYCE (baritone)
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC Symphony ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
Part 1

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Johanna Peters
Baritone:
Bruce Boyce
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar

Some song writers of the popular folk-song revival in Britain singing their own songs
ENOCH KENT of London
CYRIL TAWNEY of Plymouth
MATT MCGINN of Glasgow
JOHNNY HANDLE of Newcastle and EWAN MACCOLL and PEGGY SEEGER
A critical appraisal compiled and introduced by CHARLES PARKER Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Enoch Kent
Unknown:
Cyril Tawney
Unknown:
Ewan MacColl
Unknown:
Peggy Seeger
Introduced By:
Charles Parker

Trio in B flat major (D.898) ISAAC STERN (violin) LEONARD ROSE (cello)
EUGENE ISTOMIN (piano) Second broadcast
Isaac Stern. Leonard Rose. and Eugene Istomin broadcast by arrangement with Harold Holt Ltd.

Contributors

Violin:
Isaac Stern
Unknown:
Isaac Stern.
Unknown:
Leonard Rose.
Unknown:
Eugene Istomin

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