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Floreat Greyfriars! (1965, re-released 1976)

This long playing record consisted of a series of short talks by Charles Hamilton, with music specially composed for the occasion.

On side one, entitled Greyfriars Remembered, this meant a series of comments on Harry Wharton, Billy Bunter, Hurree Singh, Fisher T. Fish, and Vernon-Smith, with Nigel Anthony reading extracts from a number of Magnet and post war Bunter stories.

Side two, entitled personal reminiscences, had Charles Hamilton talking about his early days as a writer, his characters, gambling, and current occupations. Most of the short pieces were separated by brief snatches of incidental music; and the record started and finished with a Greyfriars school song.

The record was re-released in 1976 in conjunction with the Howard Baker press, to celebrate the centenary of Charles Hamilton’s birth. The track listing are below: click on the link to play or right click and choose "save target as" to download and listen to off-line. Enjoy!

 

Side One: Greyfriars remembered
1	Greyfriars school song	Frank Richards & Laurie Johnson, sung by boys of Hendon Grammar School
2	Extract from Magnet 1: Harry Wharton is told he is going to Greyfriars	Read by Nigel Anthony
3	Harry Wharton’s starting school	Frank Richards
4	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
5	How Bunter was invented	Frank Richards
6	Extract from Magnet 1: Bunter’s first appearance	Read by Nigel Anthony
7	On Bunter’s stupidity	Frank Richards
8	Extract from “Billy Bunter’s Beanfeast”: Skinner and Bunter	Read by Nigel Anthony
9	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
10	Bunter’s fondness for food	Frank Richards
11	Extract from Magnet 1585: Bunter uses Loder’s name to order strawberries and cream over the phone	Read by Nigel Anthony
12	Bunter’s telling lies and basic characteristics	Frank Richards
13	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
14	Introducing Hurree Singh to Greyfriars	Frank Richards
15	Extract from Magnet ?: Hurree Singh’s idiosyncratic English	Read by Nigel Anthony
16	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
17	On Fisher T. Fish’s character	Frank Richards
18	Extract from Magnet 1611: Fish visits Wharton Lodge	Read by Nigel Anthony
19	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
20	Herbert Vernon-Smith’s character	Frank Richards
21	Extract from “Billy Bunter’s Beanfeast”: Smithy losing at the casino	Read by Nigel Anthony
22	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
Side Two: Personal reminiscences
23	What Charles Hamilton read as a boy	Frank Richards
24	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
25	Travelling abroad	Frank Richards
26	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
27	Need to experience gambling to warn others against it	Frank Richards
28	Extract from Magnet 1654: Gosling tells Mr Quelch he threw the tomato that hit Mr Hacker, not Bunter.	Read by Nigel Anthony
29	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
30	Quelch is Frank Richard’s favourite character	Frank Richards
31	Extract from “Ultio Bunteri” (Bunter story in Latin)	Read by Nigel Anthony
32	Editors sometimes suggested the subject …	Frank Richards
33	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
34	Magnet artists and the use of illustrations	Frank Richards
35	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
36	The character’s name must indicate the type of character	Frank Richards
37	Incidental music	Composed by Laurie Johnson
38	If you want to write for boys, don’t patronise them	Frank Richards
39	Current occupations	Frank Richards
40	Greyfriars is a life of innocence, and so it should be	Frank Richards
41	Reflections on old age	Frank Richards
42	Greyfriars school song	Frank Richards & Laurie Johnson, sung by boys of Hendon Grammar School

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