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Roy Plomley's castaway is principal boy Dorothy Ward.

Luxury: Make-up box

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Thu 23 Dec 195418:30
Home Service

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Music Played

  • The Mantovani Orchestra

    Lonely Ballerina

  • Noël Coward

    Private Lives

    Artist: Gertrude Lawrence

  • Claude Debussy

    La cathédrale engloutie (from Preludes, Book 1)

    Soloist: Walter Gieseking

  • Bing Crosby - These Foolish Things

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding Cake (Valse-Caprice),Op. 76

    Soloist: Yvonne Arnaud

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che farò senza Euridice (What is Life?) (from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Soloist: Kathleen Ferrier

  • Melodi Light Orchestra

    Procession

  • Allan Jones

    All the Things You Are

  • Luxury Choice

    • Make-up box

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestDorothy Ward

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 Dec 195418:30
    Home Service

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