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Forces Gala Night : 1964 : BFBS 21st Anniversary

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1964
Episodes
1
Language
English

Forces Gala Night : Twenty-First Anniversary Sun 8th Nov 1964, 6:00pm

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Celebration of wartime Forces broadcasting

British radio. 90 minute special celebrating the 21st anniversary of BFBS, the British Forces Broadcasting Service, which began in 1943.

Compered by Cliff Michelmore and David Jacobs

The New Radio Orchestra with conductor Paul Fenoulhet

Scriptwriter Gale Pedrick

Producer Bill Worsley

Guest Artists :

Charlie Chester remembers Studio Stand Easy from the Mediterranean Merry-Go-Round Show

Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne revive Much Binding in the Marsh in a six minute spot

Eric Barker, Pearl Hackney and Jon Pertwee revive HMS Waterlogged in a six minute spot

Singer Edmund Hockridge

David Jacobs introduces singer Anne Shelton from Calling Malta

ITMA returns: The late Tommy Handley interviews Mrs Mopp (Dorothy Summers) (BBC recording)

Elsie and Doris Walters revive Gert and Daisy

Bill Crozier (in Cologne) and Jean Metcalfe present Two Way Family Favourites with singers Susan Maughan and Matt Monro

Ken Dodd and Judith Chalmers present a spoof version of Two Way Family Favourites from Knotty Ash (pardon Judith?) with a singing spot by Doddy

Harmonica solo by Larry Adler

A humorous-cum-dramatic poem performed by Alan Wheatley

McDonald Hobley abbreviates Does The Team Think with Professor Jimmy Edwards (on the telephone from Cambridge), and (in person in the studio) Ted Ray and Tommy Trinder

Pianoforte selections by Semprini

Harry Secombe and Spike…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Forces Gala Night 21st Anniversary Special [raw dub]

    · 1 h 35 min

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