Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,743 playable programmes from the BBC

Prelude, La Traviata (Verdi): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Alceo Galliera
Concerto in A minor (Brahms):
Gioconda de Vito (violin), Amadeo Baldavino (cello), and the Philharmon.ia Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Schwarz
Suite: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
(Rimsky-Korsakov) : Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Alceo Galliera
Violin:
Gioconda de Vito
Violin:
Amadeo Baldavino
Conducted By:
Rudolf Schwarz
Conducted By:
Issay Dobrowen

of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen
Conducted by the Very Rev. Rabbi Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth of Nations, assisted by Rev. I. Levy, O.B.E., Senior Jewish Chaplain to H.M. Forces
Band of H.M. Scots Guards
Conducted by Lt.-Col. S. Rhodes, M.B.E.
Director of Music
Scene described by Henry Riddel !
From the Horse Guards Parade Ground, 'London

Contributors

Assisted By:
Rev. I. Levy, O.B.E.,
Conducted By:
Lt.-Col. S. Rhodes, M.B.E.
Unknown:
Henry Riddel

An impromptu talk by Heinrich Harrer author of the recently published book, ' Seven Years in Tibet'
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer and Olympic skiing champion, is one of the very few Europeans who nave been inside Tibet. Climbing in the Himalayas in 1939, Mr. Harrer was caught by the outbreak of the war and interned in India. He managed to escape and after an epic journey across the Himalayas reached Tibet where he stayed for seven years, becoming unofficial tutor to the Dalai Lama.

Contributors

Talk By:
Heinrich Harrer

by Arnold Bennett
Adapted for broadcasting in eight parts by Evelyn Russell
1-' Father and Son '
Other parts played by Joan Bailey. Joe Deeley
Frank Higgins. Leslie Howe and Brenda Wentworth-Sheilds
Produced by William Hughes in the BBC s Midland studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Evelyn Russell
Played By:
Joan Bailey.
Played By:
Joe Deeley
Unknown:
Frank Higgins.
Unknown:
Leslie Howe
Unknown:
Brenda Wentworth-Sheilds
Produced By:
William Hughes
Narrator:
Geoffrey Lewis
Darius Clayhanger, as a boy:
D. English
Darius Clayhanger ,as a man:
Edward Chapman
Shushions:
Albert Smedley
Edwin Clayhanger:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Maggie Clayhanger:
Marjorie Westbury
Clara Clayhanger:
Molly Lawson
Mrs Nixon:
Nora Morrey
Aunt Hamps:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Miss Ingamells:
Sheila Howells
Big James Yarlett:
Ralph Dean
Enoch Peake:
James Lowe

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.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More