1.
Stage Shows in which Joyce
Grenfell appeared:
All UK unless
otherwise stated.
DL – Diana Lyddon -
stage manager; WB – William Blezard, pianist.
1940-41
Farjeon’s Diversion - Wyndham’s
Theatre, London - 3 spots
1942 ENSA
tour of UK
1942 Light and Shade Herbert Farjeon revue,
Ambassador’s theatre, London
1944 ENSA
tour of North Africa with Viola
Tunnard
1944-45
ENSA tour of Middle East and India with Viola Tunnard
1945-6 Sigh No More, Noel Coward revue,
Picadilly Theatre, London.
1945- 23
February 1946. UK Tour of Sigh No
More
1947-8 Tuppence Coloured, Laurier Lister revue,
tour of Cheltenham, Leicester,Bournemouth, Brighton, Edinburgh. October 15, 1947 London: Lyric,
Hammersmith, moved to the Globe. 247 performances.
1951-2 Penny Plain, Laurier Lister revue, St Martin’s Theatre, London. Tour of
Bournemouth, Glasgow, Liverpool, Brighton.
1952 –
Six week tour with Viola Tunnard for British troops in Libya and
Egypt.
1954-5 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure -
first solo show with dancers Three's Company, tour of Cambridge 26 April -1 May;
Brighton 2-8 May; Folkestone 10-15 May; Dublin 17-22 May; Bath 24-29 May.
Fortune Theatre, London 2 June -25 September 1954; St Martin’s Theatre, London
27 September - 29 Jan 1955. UK tour: Stratford 14-19 March; Glasgow 21-26
March,; Aberdeen 28 March-2 April; Edinburgh 4-9 April; Manchester 11-16 April;
Leeds 18-23 april; Liverpool 25-30 April; Oxford 2-7 May; Streatham 9-14 May;
Golder’s Green Hippodrome 16-21 May (256 performances)
1955 Requests the Pleasure Stratford,
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford, Streatham,
Golder’s Green. St Martin's Theatre, London with Three's Company and
WB
1955 Requests the Pleasure, on Broadway, for
8 weeks. Music -George Bauer
1956 Joyce Grenfell at Home, Tour of Michigan, Toronto, Ottawa, Buffalo,
Niagara, Washington, Lyceum Theatre, New York – Music -George
Bauer
1956
Two week tour of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia) with Viola
Tunnard.
1957 Joyce Grenfell at Home tour to Dublin,
Glasgow, Newcastle, then Lyric Hammersmith for 4 weeks.
1958
Joyce Grenfell Bids Your Good Morning – Broadway, New York for four weeks,
Winnipeg, San Francisco, Beverley Hills, Chicago, Wisconsin, Boston. Music -
George Bauer
1959 –
Meet Joyce Grenfell, Philip
Theatre, Sydney, Australia.15 weeks with WB
1960 Tour of UK – Middlesborough, Harrogate (
see orig J&G) Music – DL and WB
1960 Seven Good Reasons, seven charity shows
Scala Theatre, London– DL and WB
1962 Joyce Grenfell Haymarket Theatre,
London, followed by tour of Glasgow, Harrogate, Huddersefield, Brighton,
Manchester and Cheltenham. DL and WB
1963 -
Tour of Australia – Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Launceton, Melbourne,
Perth , , Wellington, Queensland and Sydney. Music - WB
1964 –
Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Music - Blezard
1964
Switzerland and Hong Kong Music - Blezard
Tour of
UK. – DL and WB
1966 –
Perth, Melbourne, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney -
WB
1966- Wolverhampton,
Coventry, Malvern, Solihull, Grimsby, Richmond, Eastbourne, King’s Lynn,
Cambridge, Norwich – DL and WB
1966
–Melbourne, Perth, Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand – Auckland,
Christchurch and Wellington ; Beverley Hills, USA.
-WB
1967
-Tour of USA and Canada, Los Angeles, Okklahoma, St Louis, Mount Vernon, Toronto,
Kohler, East Lancing, Michigan, Cleveland, Williamsburg, Baltimore– DL and WB
Eight
week tour of UK, Felixstowe, Worthing, Portsmouth, King’s Lynn, Southend,
Southampton, Derby, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Liverpool, Birmingham, Richmond Yorks,
Newark, Stratford-upon-Avon, St Alban’s, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,
Chichester, Bury St Edmund’s,
Guildford - with DL and WB
Hong Kong
with WB
1968 tour of UK, Bury St Edmund’s,
Chichester, London, St Alban’s, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newark, Richmond Yorks,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Derby, Southampton, Southend, King’s
Lynn, Portsmouth, Worthing, Felixstowe -– DL and WB
1968
Harrogate, Sunderland, Folkestone, Guildford, Eastbourne, Welwyn, Oxford, Derby,
Nottingham, Kings Lynn – DL and WB
1969 Bournemouth, Eastbourne, Cambridge,
Tunbridge Wells, East Grinstead, Portsmouth, Bath, Hastings, Colwyn Bay, Hale
Park, Guildford. ( with DL and WB).
1969 –
Tour of Australia with WB.
1970 USA
with WB
1970
Brighton, Hastings, Canterbury, Nottingham, Leicester, Gloucester – DL and WB
1972 UK
tour- Wavendon, Richmond, Stirling, Bath, Salisbury, High Wycombe, Coventry,
Rochdale, Leeds, Aldeburgh, Wallesey, Sheffield, Northampton, Brighton-– DL and
WB
1973 Last
performance, Waterloo Diner, Windsor Castle – DL and WB
2.
Books by Joyce
Grenfell
Nanny Says, Dobson, 1972 & 1987. Collection of sayings, introduced by
Joyce.
By Special Request, Macmillan, 1973. Joyce's first autobiography, covering
her life from birth up to her first solo show in 1954.
George, don't do that, Macmillan, 1977. Nursery school
sketches.
Stately as a galleon, Macmillan, 1977. More theatrical sketches
and songs.
In Pleasant Places, Macmillan, 1979. Joyce's second autobiography, covering
her life from 1954 to her retirement in 1973.
Joyce by herself and her
friends, Macmillan,
1980. A posthumous collection of
portraits by old and young friends and relatives, with some of her
poems.
An Invisible Friendship, Macmillan, 1981. Collection of letters
between Joyce and Kathleen Moore, an English teacher and poet whom she never
met.
Turn back the clock, Macmillan, 1983. Collection of monologues, poems and
songs.
Darling Ma, Letters to Joyce Grenfell’s
mother, 1932-1944, edited by
James Roose-Evans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
The time of My Life, Entertaining the Troops
- Her Wartime Journals,
edited by James Roose-Evans, Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.
Joyce and Ginnie, Letters of Joyce Grenfell
and Virginia Graham, edited
and introduced by Janie Hampton, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. Serialised by
Hampton on BBC Radio 3.
Hats off! The poetry and drawings of Joyce
Grenfell, edited and
introduced by Janie Hampton, John Murray, 2000. Serialised by Hampton on BBC
Radio 4.
3.
Monologues by Joyce performed
on the radio and stage
1939 - Useful and acceptable
gifts, recorded 1939.05.11 ; Different Kinds of Mother: Village Mother, recorded
1939 .05.11 ; American mother recorded 1939.05.11; The Understanding
and rather English Mother; Head Girl ; Committee
1940 -
Canteen in wartime; Local Library; Companion Pieces: The Friend who talks; The
Friend who gets lost at the cinema.
1942 -
Cardboard Figures 1. End of Affair; Cardboard Figures 2. Her Ladyship‘s maid;
Cardboard Figures 3. Young Thing in a straight play; Woolgathering; Situation
Vacant; End of Affair
1945 -
Travelling Broadens the Mind ( revised 1955); Nursery School – Nativity
Play.
1947-
Artist’s room - a pair of front stalls, a group of balcony tickets, a pair of
complimentary tickets, one single top balcony unreserved; Odyssey
1948 -
Going abroad for the hols; Amateur actress in a costume play
1949 -
Nursery school- going home time
1950 -
Life and Literature ( at RSC for Sir John Gielgud, then Penny Plain);
Thought for Today ; Nursery School – flowers; Nursery school - sing song
time
1952 -
Tristam ( the boy who went to church); Nursery school – Biscuits and Milk; A
Little Talk.
1954 -
Women at Work I - Antique Shop ; Women at work 2 - Behind the counter; Women at
work 3 - writer of children’s books ; Private Secretary ( originally performed
by Betty Marsden in Air on a shoestring in 1953); Young Musician, before
her first London recital; Mother and Daughter ; Shirley’s Girl Friend - Mr
Pilchard’s Discovery.; Visitor - cocktail party; Fern Brixton ( Extra Sensory
Perception)
1957 -
Friend to Tea; Wibberly; Shirley’s Girl friend - Fun Fair/ (The giant wheel in
USA); Christmas Eve; Nursery School - free activity; Teacher ( written for Diana
Churchill, later performed by JG)
1959 -
Life story, ( wife of famous musician); Boat Train; Counter-wise; Simple Setting
(American woman having portrait painted); Telephone call (originally performed
by Bettina Welch in Sydney) ; Shirley’s Girl friend – Beauty Through Body
Control.
1960 -
Shirley’s Girl Friend 2 - Picnic Place
1962 -
Fern Brixton; Dumb Friend; Speeches I, 2 & 3; Shirley’s Girl Friend 3-
Foreign Feller; Nursery School -
Story Time.
1964-
It’s made all the difference; Shirley’s Girl Friend 4 - Music festival; Opera
Interval;
1965 -
Lally Tullet; The Past is Present I - old boyfriend on waterloo station; Past is
Present 2 -school reunion; Eng. Lit. I - Interview
1967 - A Terrible Worrier ; Eng. Lit. II - An
Event; Good old Jennifer; The wedding is on Saturday
1968 -
Nicodemus’s Song ; Eng. Lit. III – Anarchy.
1969 -
One is One and All alone; First Flight
1971 -
Mulgarth street
4.
[Composer in brackets]
1940 - I’m in love with a Gentleman [Virginia Graham]
1942 - I’m going to see you
today, recorded 1942.09.03 [Richard Addinsell}
recorded 1942.03.11 with
orchestra conducted by Harry Acres; also recorded by Gracie Fields. ( c Keith
Prowse)
1942 - Security Song, words by Virginia
Graham sung to tune of My Bonny lies over the ocean, originally published as a
poem in Punch.
Leonie (words by Harry
Graham, music by Virginia Graham]
There is Nothing New to tell
You [Richard
Addinsell]
Drifting Grenfell [Richard
Addinsell]
I’m going to see you today
Grenfell [Richard Addinsell]
1943 - Turn Back the Clock
[Richard Addinsell] ( c Keith Prowse)
Someday – Grenfell [Richard
Addinsell] ( c Keith Prowse)
They’re a lovely bunch of
boys Grenfell [Richard Addinsell]
End of wartime leave
[Richard Addinsell]
There but anywhere in the
world [Richard Addinsell]
1945 - Oh Mr du
Maurier! [Richard Addinsell]
1946 - When you Go, [Virginia Graham and Richard Addinsell] sung by Evelyn
Laye in Elusive
Lady
1947 - One Wet White Monday
[Donald Swann]
The Countess of Cotely
[Richard Addinsell]
I like life Grenfell
[Richard Addinsell]
Echo song [Richard Addinsell]
Rainbow Nights [Geoffrey Wright] ( from Tuppence
Coloured)
1948 -
Teacher [Richard
Addinsell]
1949 - The Wedding of Miss
Duck, [Viola Tunnard]
Charlie Parker’s Flower
song, [Viola Tunnard]
1951 - A penny isn’t a penny any more
- opening chorus from
Penny Plain –[Richard Addinsell]
Penny
Plain Finale [Richard
Addinsell]
Festival Calypso [Richard
Addinsell] (sung by Elisabeth Welch
Joyful Noise [Donald Swann]
Running Commentary [Richard Addinsell]
Keepsake
(Picture Postcard) Phipps &
Grenfell /[Richard Addinsell], A Moment with Tennyson (or Maud), Nicholas
Phipps & Joyce [Richard Addinsell].
Songs my mother taught me:
Since bacon has gone up a dollar a pound, [Viola Tunnard]; Fare thee well Old
Joe Clark; never mind the weather; Yellow rose of Texas [Viola Tunnard]; All the
pretty little horses [Viola
Tunnard]; Wrong songs for wrong singers [Viola Tunnard]; I’m gwine away t’leave
you, [Viola Tunnard]; I’ll lend you my horse ; Hand me down my bonnet, [Viola
Tunnard]; Seems like time; I heard a voice [Viola Tunnard] Snowball; [Viola
Tunnard]; All night, angels
watching over thee; Sit down
Sister, [Viola Tunnard]
Love at Last -[Richard
Addinsell], based on the theme from
Somerset Maugham’s film ‘Encore’.
1952 - Teacher ( Oranges
and lemons revue)
Rainbow
Nights [Geoffrey Wright] sung by Daphne Oxenford and
Diana Churchill in Oranges and
Lemons.
Private Secretary - (Air on
a Shoestring, originally performed by Betty Marsden
All Night, & Lord’s gin
to set this world on fire, [Viola Tunnard]
My Heart’s as light as air,
[Richard Addinsell], played by Tunnard. August 1952
I don't ‘arf love yer, [
Kenneth Mortimer and Richard Addinsell],
Narcissus
[Nevion-Paramor] recorded by JG and Norman Wisdom with Norrie Paramor and
his orchestra
1953 – One Wet Whit Monday [
Donald Swann]
Ordinary morning [Richard Addinsell]
Old Willy Waddle [Viola Tunnard]
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell]
Old Willy Waddle [Viola Tunnard]
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell]
Career Girl [Richard
Addinsell] originally performed by Elisabeth Welsh in Pay the
Piper
Ballad [Richard
Addinsell]
Palais Dancers [Richard
Addinsell]
Hostess[Richard
Addinsell]
Ethel [Richard Addinsell]
The Music’s message [Richard
Addinsell]
Encores [Richard
Addinsell]
Three Brothers [Richard
Addinsell]
Mrs Mendlicote [Richard
Addinsell]
The Whizzer - [Richard
Addinsell]. first performed by Elie and Doris Waters and Sally Steward in Pay
the Piper
It’s almost Tomorrow
[Richard Addinsell],
Encores [Richard
Addinsell]
1957 - The woman on the bus [Richard
Addinsell]
All we ask is Kindness
[Richard Addinsell]
Five songs to make you sick
[Richard Addinsell]
Learn to Loosen [Richard
Addinsell]
1958 - It’s Almost tomorrow. [Richard
Addinsell]
Opening Numbers [Richard Addinsell]
London Scottish
[Grenfell]
1959 - You don’t need more than a Small, Bare
room [Richard Addinsell]
Dear Francois [Richard
Addinsell]
Golden Wedding[Richard
Addinsell]
Boat Train [Richard
Addinsell]
French Bergeretter, [Richard
Addinsell]
1962 – Old Tyme Dancing
(Stately as a Galleon) [Richard Addinsell]
1964 - Visitor [Blezard and
Grenfell]
What shall I wear ? [Richard
Addinsell]
Pop-Song - [Richard
Addinsell]
Lullaby [William Blezard],
1964
1965 - I wouldn’t go back to
the world I knew [Richard Addinsell]
Hymn [Richard Addinsell]
Bring back the silence
[Richard Addinsell]
Ferry Boats of Sydney
[William Blezard]
Come Catch me [William
Blezard]
1967 - Good Old Jennifer [William
Blezard]
Unsuitable [William
Blezard]
Bene Molte Bene – Britten
celebration song [William Blezard]
Not in the mood for
news/[William Blezard]
1969 - Private I [William Blezard]
Duet [Richard
Addinsell]
Thursdays [Grenfell]
1969
Wrong song for wrong singers
[Richard Addinsell/ Tunnard/ William Blezard], Slow down [William Blezard]
1973 – See you very
Soon [William Blezard] - performed
at Windsor Castle as an encore.
Slow down [William
Blezard]
In Case Of… [William
Blezard]
* In BBC Sound
Archive
Transatlantic
Quiz to North America, 15
April 1941.
Australia Magazine
with Geraldo’s band, 21 June 1941
Tonight we
Present, Joyce and Edith
Evans earned eight guineas each for broadcasting to BBC North America a
selection from Diversion. 21 Jan
1941.
Saturday
afternoon- July 5
1941
Blitz
Scrapbook Told by Radio,
Presented by Cecil Madden and Gerry Wilmot, 1941 *
Joyce Grenfell
Feature 18 May
1942
Revue High
Spots’, June 9
1942
Monday Night at
Eight, 7 Sept 1942; 4
January 1943 ;15 march 1943, 1 November 1943, 3 July 1944, 23 April 1945,
Victory Night at Eight (recorded 15 April 1945) then broadcast on 14 May 1945; April 15, 28 October
1946; 8, 16 December 1946, 26 may
1947
Variety Band
Box, 25 March 1942 , 5 Sept
1943, 25 June
1944
Henry Hall’s Guest
Night, 14 August, 1942, 18
December 1941; 22 march 1950, 31 October 1951 ; 3 Jan 1951; 2 April 1952; 28
October 1953; 30 Sept 1953, 23 December 1953; 8 march 1957
The Whoopee Club
- 31 January 1942 -
Lets Get
Aquainted, 22 September
1942,
Songtime in
Laager, 15 Sept
1942
London
home, 23 Dec
1942
Anzac
Hour, 5 March
1943
Cocktails, Kippers and
Capers, 18 March, 29 April,
3 June, 25 May, 17 July October 7 1942 1 March 1943
Ghost walks on
Fridays, 10 April
1943
Brains
Trust May 3 1943
Palestine Half Hour, 6
June, 1943
London Letter to
Europe, 24 June
1943.
Jack’s
Dive, august 12
1943.
Middle East Merry-go
round 26 November, 1943
The Dansant,
Sept 14
1943
Cabaret 27 Sept 1943
Navy
Mixture, 14 October 1943, 10
august 1944.
Vaudeville of
1943, 25 December 1943
Personal
Choice - poem, Jan
1944
Sketch, January 1944
Transatlantic quiz with David Niven, 1944
All Star Quiz, 1944
Atlantic
Spotlight, 5 August
1944
Canadian Band of the
Supreme Allied Command, 14
august 1944, 18 June 1945
Starlight, 26 June 1944, 17 May, 1945, 26 October 1945
august 18, September 11, 11 October,1946, Jan 16 1947
Here’s wishing you well
again, 24 August, 19
September, 1944; 12 October 1945, 24 May 1945, 26 Feb, 19 march, 5 march, 12
march, 26 mach 2 April, 1946, 5 Nov, 12 Nov, 19 Nov, 17 Dec 3, Dec and 10 Dec
1946
SEAC party
27 Sept 1945
Lucky Dip17 October 1945
Monday Night at
Eight, Victory edition, with
Arthur Askey and Richard ‘stinker’ Murdoch, Kenneth Horne, Batchelor Singers,
BBC Variety orchestra, with Ian Blair, 14 May 1945*
Quiz Team, January 1 1946
Sentimental
Rhapsody, 3 January 1946 ,
15 February 1946
These Passing
Shows, 5 January
1946
Music Hall, 28
September 1946
You can’t miss
it, September 1946
Personal
points, 19 October
1946
Music by
Melachino, 12 October, 25
October, 16 November 1946
Radio
oddities, November 10 1946
The Critic on the air, BBC Third
programme, 12 December 1946 *
Plain
English – 4 programmes, 1946
In Town
Tonight 1946-1965
x12
Monday Night at Eight, Jan and May 1947
Waiting for
ITMA, Feb
1947
A Note with
Music, Feb 22, March 1, 8,
15, 22, 29, 1947
Caribbean
Carnival, March 1947 , July
1949
Transatlantic
quiz - 10 programmes from
March 1947
Alhambra of the
air, Nov 9
1947
Britain’s Pleasure
Paradise, Oct 21
1947
On with the
music, Oct 31 1947
Chronique des
spectacles, European service -
French Nov 17 1947
Transatlatic
quiz, Feb 20 1947; Alistair
Cooke was in New York; 3 May 1947;
from Paris to New York, June 1947.
On with the
music, Oct 31 1947
Chronique des
spectacles, European service –
French, Nov 17
1947
The Laughtermakers 1947, No 16, The art of Joyce Grenfell’
script by Gaie Pedrick production Tom Ronald with Laurier Lister, Charlotte
Leigh, George Benson, Virginia Graham, Kenneth Bird. Gladys Young, Richard
Addinsell, 26 March 1957 *
6 jan, 22, 25, 29 Jan*, 1,
5, 8, 12, 15, Feb 1952; March, 13 Feb, 19 Feb, 1952;
23, 30 Sept, 7 Oct 14, 21,28
Oct 1949; 4, 11, 18, 25 Nov; 2,9,16, 23, 30 Dec, 6,13,20 Jan 1950; Jan, 28 Jan,
4 Feb, 11 Feb cancelled due to King’s death, 18 Feb, 25 Feb, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
March, 7 April, 1952. 31 December 1952.
24 Dec 1953, 28 December,
4,11,18,25 January; 5 February 1954. 23, 30 Sept, 7 Oct 14, 21,28 Oct 1949, then
another 6 after that - 4,11,18,25 Nov, 2,9, Dec 1949; 16, 23, 30 Dec, 6,13,20
Jan 1950.
Poetry
reading, 10 April 1949
The
Critics April 7,14,21,28
1949; 12 times from 1945-67
Christmas
scrapbook 1948x2, 1957,
1961
Musical
Memories, June 1949
Woman’s
Hour - I am not as unkind as
I seem, first talk, May 1949; 4 July 1949; 22 December 1950, monologue about
Shirley’s Girl friend and songs, accompanied by Viola Tunnard. Guest of the
week, December 1951; 7 Feb 1952; Enjoying people, 25 Jan 1957; 40th
anniversary of radio, Nov 11, 1962, Joyce interviewed herself ; Garden to Garden
- about Chelsea Rectory garden; In praisse of virtue, March 1960; letter from
America, April 1960; Things I have laughed at, 21 Dec 1961; Letter to Someone Else’s
Daughter, Spring 1962. Progress; My
kind of novelist ( Jane Austen); A philosophy of giving, 1966. My Kind of Magic,
June 1965; Letter to a friend, May 20 1974. Be My Guest; Hats, woman’s hour quiz
- In my opinion; The pleasures of winterr; Escape route,
1949 –1976 at least 112 times (mainly 1956-68),
Cross Channel
Quiz, 14 July; 30 July
1949
Joyce Grenfell
entertains, 22 Sept; 20 Dec
1949
Poems 1949, 1970x2
Talk, BBC Australia 23 November,
1949
Famous
women 1949
Poetry
reading, 10 April 1949
The Critics April 7,14,21,28
1949
Musical
Memories, June
1949
Caribbean
carnival, July
1949
Joyce Grenfell
entertains, BBC Home
service, 22 Sept, 20 Dec,
1949
My
Miscellany, children’s hour,
12 March 1950
Eastern Brains Trust, 6 march, 13,
March 1950 (Eastern English service)
Film Time, 29 June 1950 plus 7 more
The pleasure of never
being bored, Australia BBC
radio, 1950
Mirror of the
Month 1950 X
2
Theatre & Film
Carnival
1950
The Joke’s on
Us, Overseas service, 6
April 1951
Festival
Parade, 23 June
1951
Penny
Plain, July
1951.
Desert Island
Discs, August 8 1951; 22 May
1971.*
Same time, same
place, with Stephen Potter,
North American service, 24 July 1951.
Limelight. 7 Sept 1951
Leisure
Hour, 15, 22, 29, Nov, 6,
13, 20, 27 Dec 1951; 9 July, 6,23 July, 6 august, 20 August,
1952
Movie
Matinees 1951
x2
Book by the
fire’, 25 Jan
1952
This I believe, interview
for North American service, BBC
The Perfect woman,
March 24 1952,
Star Show, Nov 15 1952; 14 Feb 1953
The wrong shape for dancing, three biographical talks by Joyce Grenfell, BBC World
Service, 19 august 1953. *
Saturday Night on the
Light, 7 Feb
1953
Variety
Playhouse, 1 august
1953
I know what I like, 6 December 1953
Ask me
another
1953
St. Trinian’s, January,
1954
The Hundredth Boat Race, 2 April
1954
The Type of Man I
like, October 10,
1954
Stories of
Childhood, 26 December ,
1954
Music Club, a talk about musical
taste, 3 December 1954
The Worst
years 1954
Music
Club 1954
This is
Britain, talk, April 1956
Home for the
day, - talks June
1956
These foolish
things, 6 and 20 Julie, 7
Sept 1956; December 1957
Question time 1957
Younger
Generation - Question Time
10 Feb 1957
The
laughtermakers, 9 march 1957
Talk on My
Father, June 1957
Christmas
Story for Pacific service,
November 1957
In Town Tonight,
19 June, 11 November
1959
Pick of the
week 1959 -70 x 18 times
(including Leslie Smith)
London
Lights, 22 November 1960, 7
Feb 1961, 4 April 1961
In town
today, 19 Sept
1960*
Talking about
music, 23 Mar 1961,
*, 12 Jan 1961
The Norman Wisdom
Story, 9 Feb
1961
Talking about
music, 23 Mar
1961*
In town
today, JG talks of satire to
Leslie Mitchell, 1962.03.09. *
Woman’s
Hour, Joyce Grenfell
interviews herself, 26 Sep 1962*
Any
questions, 5 December 1962
in Bristol
Frankly
Speaking, 4 April
1964
Five to
Ten, 'Enjoying Christmas
with Joyce Grenfell', produced by Joanna Scott-Moncreiff, Light programme, 15 December
1964
JG in comedy
parade, 17 Dec 1964.*
Roundabout, 11 August 1964 ( with Carole
Allen)
Ten to
Eight 1965 -70 x
10
Movie go
round 1965
Grenfell at
home, 10 Dec
1965*
The Time of my
Life, 24 Aug 1967
*
The Dansant,
radio 4, 7 marsh
1969
Ten to
Eight, 12 February , 25
March 1969
Beginning with the
Bible, July 20,
1969
Wishes for A God-child,
March 1969, included in an anthology published by BBC
Any
Questions - 28 March 1969
*
Talking about
music, the first day of the
week, 29 April 1969*
Tribute to Stephen
Potter, 2 Dec 1969
Radio Christmas
card, 23 Dec
1969
Talking about
music, 29 April 1969,
*
Subject for
Sunday, Leslie Smith, Jan 5
1970.*
Something sensational to
read in the train’ -
diaries, 8 June 1970
With great
pleasure, selection of prose
and poems, 10 Sept 1970.
Pause for
thought, 26 august 1970 and
1 Jan 1971 - 7 may 1971, 11 August 1971, 1 Dec 1971 , 9 March 1972, 18 July 1972
.
Thought for the
day, talk on Christian
Science, produced by Rev Colin Semper, 10 January 1971
Does God make a
difference? BBC World
service, 14 Sept 1971
Desert Island
Discs, 14 May
1971*
My Kind of
Music, 18 July 1972
Pause for Thought, produced by
Shirley du Boulay, 2 X1972
Pick of the
Week, Friend for Tea, 5
august 1972.
Pied
Piper - interview with David
Monroe, 25 October 1972
Friend for
Tea, Pick of the Week 5
august 1972.
Grenfell on ENSA, 1973*
The Entertainers -Joyce
Grenfell, 28 March 1973
*
Ragtime to rock n
roll, 23 Sep 1974,
*
Noel Coward, 16 Aug 1975. *
Reading for
pleasure, 24 Nov
1975*
Story of revue, 3 March 1976, *
Alastair
Sim, 23 Sep
1976*
Themes from Childhood, interviewed by Derek Parker, produced by
Ronald Cook. BBC World service, 1976 *
This Glittering Bird on
the wing, produced by Andre
Sloman, with Nigel Rees, Laura Grimond, Mark Bonham Carter, Lady Elliot, Anne
Symonds and Joyce Grenfell
26 Oct 1976
*
Servant of the
music- a portrait of Myra
Hess, 1977.*
100 years of
Wimbledon, 6 May
1977*
Through my window,
14 Sept 1978
Laughter in the
air , Dec 1978 *
Kaleidoscope, 7 aug 1979, *
Grenfell and
Bakewell, 29 Aug. 1979
*
Joyce Grenfell talks with
illustrations, Rosehill
Theatre, Richmond, Cumbria, September 15 1979. Bristol.