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Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and actress Ada Reeve.

Luxury: Embroidery workbox

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Fri 21 Nov 195218:20
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Music Played

  • Eric Winstone & His Orchestra

    By the Sleepy Lagoon

  • Gertrude Lawrence

    Do Do Do

  • Harry Tate and Company

    Motoring

  • Gene Austin

    Lonesome Road

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6

    Soloist: Mark Hambourg

  • Sophie Tucker

    Some of These Days

  • The Band of the Coldstream Guards

    In a Monastery Garden

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Chi mi frena (Sextet) (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

    Soloist: Maria Gentile

  • Luxury Choice

    • Embroidery workbox

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestAda Reeve

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Nov 195218:20
    Home Service

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