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Introductory music: Sarabande from Suite in B minor for flute and strings (Bach)
Order of Service
Theme: "Forgive us our trespasses"
Introductory talk
"Blessed are the pure in heart" (A. and M. 261; S.P. 455; Rv. C.H. 478. Tune: Franconia)
Prayer
Reading: Matthew 18, vv. 21-35
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
"O for a heart to praise my God" (A. and M. 549; S.P. 113; Rv. C.H. 467. Tune: Stockton)
Blessing
Closing music

on gramophone records
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Marian Anderson (contralto)St. George's Chapel Choir, Windsor, conducted by Dr. W. H. Harris
Keith Falkner (baritone)St. George's SingersSt. George's Chapel Choir, Windsor, conducted by Sir Walford Davies

Contributors

Soprano:
Gwen Catley
Contralto:
Marian Anderson
Conducted By:
Dr. W. H. Harris
Baritone:
Keith Falkner
Conducted By:
Sir Walford Davies

'The singer's on his feet'
Written by Charles Penrose
The Pig and Whistle Chorus and Orchestra

Contributors

Written By:
Charles Penrose
Producer:
Ernest Longstaffe
Rcsie Jones (the landlady):
Miriam Ferris
Old Granfer:
Charles Wreford
'Erb (Rosie's Cockney cousin):
John Rorke
Harry Entwisde (a lad fra' Lancs:
Tommy Brandon
Richard Deane (the Squire's son):
Dennis Noble
Sergeant Evergreen:
Charles Penrose

Third of the series of discussions in which three men ask a parson some of the questions that are in many people's minds these days
Tonight's conversation begins with a challenge to the parson to say on what grounds he believes in the kind of God he has been talking about, what is the evidence? A good many people must have wanted to ask a parson that, and the three laymen are not prepared to accept an easy answer.

A flight to adventure in six parts Script by Phillip Leaver and Ernest Dudley ; lyrics by James Dyrenforth , music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Programme planned with the technical co-operation of British Overseas Airways Corporation
Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Vemon Harris

Contributors

Script By:
Phillip Leaver
Script By:
Ernest Dudley
Lyrics by:
James Dyrenforth
Music By:
Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Produced By:
Vemon Harris
Amanda Linden:
Gillian Lind
Squadron-Leader Bill Carey, R.A.A.F.:
Ivan Brandt
Mrs. Agatha Pitt-Rumble:
Athene Seyler
Mike:
Leslie Perrins
Mr Smith, receptionist at the Orient Hotel, Basra:
Hugh Morton
Filopopolus, an Armenian chemist:
Jacques Brown
Ali Ram Chad, his Arab assistant:
Ian Sadler
Pat Henderson, station superintendent at Sharah:
Sidney Burchall
Guide to the sacred crocodiles:
Douglas Young
The singer:
Helen Clare Intelligence officers, Airways staff, native vendors.etc.: [no names credited]

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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