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Bananas in Pyjamas: Carey Blyton at 50

Duration: 30 minutes

Interviewer & Producer: David Cornet

Original broadcast:
2:00pm on Tuesday, 28th September 1982
Repeat broadcast:
2:30pm on Wednesday, 29th September 1982

BBC Radio Medway
30 High Street, Chatham, Kent ME4 4EZ

Bananas in Pyjamas: Carey Blyton at 50

BBC Radio Medway, 28th September 1982


Carey Blyton’s 50th birthday was on 14th March 1982. Just over six months later, the event was commemorated by a half-hour BBC Radio programme devoted to Carey’s career and work to date. Broadcast on BBC Radio Medway on two consecutive afternoons, the interviewer and producer of the programme was David Cornet. The programme was publicised in print as follows [NB ‘Swanlea’ is a typo; it should be Swanley]:

Bananas in Pyjamas

Composer Carey Blyton who lives in Swanlea talks to David Cornet about his musical life as he celebrates his 50th birthday

The radio programme is reproduced here in its entirety, and may be played using the control to the right. The complete programme of music included in the broadcast is as follows:

Opus 81, 1979 A Sherlock Holmes Suite (extract) Finale: Victoria Triumphans!
Opus 4a, 1949/50 Pastiches 6 Carioca! (Heitor Villa-Lobos/Gertrude Stein)
Opus 28a, 1957/8 Cinque Port (Music for an Opera) 2 Song 1: Captain Bowsprit’s Blues
Opus 39, 1963 Six Regional Canadian Folk Songs 1 Donkey Riding (The Maritimes)
Opus 54, 1968 On Holiday 3 Hungary (On the Puszta)
Opus 64a, 1972 In Memoriam Django Reinhardt 2 Elegy
Opus 72, 1975 A Newfoundland Posy IX Jack was every inch a sailor
Opus 82a, 1979 Pasticheries (non-Boulangerie) 1 The Return of Bulgy Gogo
Opus 81, 1979 A Sherlock Holmes Suite (extract) Finale: Victoria Triumphans!