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The Vicar Knows Best
A play for radio by Michael Pickering
To Jean the country vicarage seems ideal as soon as she sets eyes on it. Her husband Peter is less enthusiastic and subsequently comes to fear the hold the house, with its unexpected contents, has on his wife.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pickering
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Jean Hirons:
Patricia Leventon
The Rev Peter Hirons:
Michael Spice
Miss Lavington:
Olwen Brookes
Mr Cardew:
Noel Howlett'

from St. Michael's College Tenbury, Worcestershire
Introit: Call to remembrance
(Farrant)
Preces and Responses (Byrd) Psalms 47. 48. and 49 Canticles (Gibbons, Short Service) Lessons: Exodus 8. vv. 1-9
Colossians 4, vv. 2-18
Anthem: Miserere met (Byrd)
Organist and Director of Music, LUCIAN NETHSINGHA

Contributors

Music:
Lucian Nethsingha

A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specially in mind, including:
A Moment of Magic: STEVE
RACE reflects on passages of music that may have made the composer smile
On the Verandah: 2—
ROSAMUND HARCOURT SMITH recalls her early life in a 300-year-old house in India during the British Raj
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosamund Harcourt Smith
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

The Island of Sheep by John Buchan adapted as an eight-part serial by Felix FELTON . and Susan ASHMAN with Malcolm Hayes
8: The Riddle of the Tablet
Produced by STEWART CONN in the BBC's Glasgow studios Felix Felton and Malcolm Hayes broadcast by permission of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. Edinburgh

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Produced By:
Stewart Conn
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Richard Hannay:
Malcolm Hayes
Jacques d'Ingraville:
John Bryden Rodgers
Anna Haraldsen:
Jean Hastings
Peter John:
Sheila Donald
Lombard:
Leon Sinden
Haraldsen:
Ian Dewar
Sandy:
Felix Felton
Troth:
Bill Henderson

Five-round contests between
London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 3
London:
Sir DENIS BROGAN
CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland:
JAMES Boyce , RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLET
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
James Boyce
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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