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22/01/1950
Peter Sellers gives his 'Cinderella', Frankie Howerd speaks proper and Bill Kerr has a slump. Philip Slessor hosts. From 1950.
Offering laughs and musical merriment, Variety Bandbox started life at the end of the Second World War broadcasting on 大象传媒 General Forces and later transferred to the Light Programme running until 1952. It launched a number of stars.
In this episode, there's ragtime with Jerry Allen on the organ and Barbara Leigh sings Some Day My Heart will Awake.
Peter Sellers does Max Miller singing I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts...
Presented by Philip Slessor
With
Frankie Howerd
William Ternent
Jerry Allen
Barbara Leigh
Peter Sellers
Bill Kerr
Producer Bryan Sears
First broadcast on the 大象传媒 Light Programme on 22nd January 1950.
On radio
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