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Overture, Calm Sea and Prosperous
Voyage (Mendelssohn): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Piano Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov):
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Henry Swoboda
Tone Poem. En Saga (Sibelius):
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki on gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Rafael Kubelik
Piano:
Paul Badura-Skoda
Conducted By:
Henry Swoboda
Conducted By:
Paul Kletzki

Diner chez le Pere Hubert
A programme for those interested in brushing up their French
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald
Peter and Helen Lamb on t'heir tour of Provence decide one evening to indulge in a luxury dinner. They stop at an attractive restaurant, ' Chez le Pere Hubert.' rappendioite, appendicitis; le sommeler, wine-waiter; la cervelle, brains; Paidgarlic
Part of tlhe menu at Pere Hubert's
Les Hors-d'oeuvre la Galantine de Volaille la Terrine du Ohef les Rillettes de Perigueux les Girolles Vinaigrette le Melon glacé
Nos Poissons le Maquereau du Golfe la Brandade de Morne a la ProvencaJe le Rouget Pere Hubert le Hareng grille
Nos Entries la Trouvaille de Sardoul
(le Coq au Vin d'Arbois) l'Escalope Pannee aux Endives
Grillades at Rolls le Châteaubriant grille pommes allumettes le Carre de Pore ProvencaJe les Cotes d'Agneau vert Pre

Contributors

Unknown:
Pere Hubert
Script By:
Emile Harven
Script By:
M. J. MacDonald
Unknown:
Helen Lamb

During the past week Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh have completed their visit to Queensland and are now in Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Audrey Russell describe places visited by the Royal Party; Godfrey Talbot reports on the progress of the tour

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Godfrey Talbot

For Older Listeners
' Me.i of Courage '
A new series of programmes by Howard Jones
5—Anthony Ashley Cooper
Produced by David Davis
Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Ashley was his title before he became seventh Ear! of Shaftesbury) was a fighter all his life. He fought against the cruelty of the asylums; he fought for the children in the factories; he fought against the dirt and disease of the sJums; he fought for vagabonds on the streets, for the sewing girls in the tailors' cellars, for the chimney climbers, for the women and children labouring in the coal mines. He fought and he never gave up.

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Jones
Produced By:
David Davis
Produced By:
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury):
Denys Blakelock
Lady AsMey (Millie):
Janet Bruce
His sisters :Emily:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
His sisters : Charlotte:
Natalie Moya
The Rev G S Bull:
Humphrey Morton
A Dorse-tman:
Stephen Jack
A youth:
Richard Wade
Charles Dickens:
Peter Claughton
The Rev P Lorimer:
Roger Snowdon
A coachman:
Herbent Smith
Clara:
Norma Griffin
A girl:
Judith Greer
A boy:
Anthony Green

An opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy
Music by Georges Bizet
English version by Hermann Klein
Cast in order of singing:
Cigarette-girls poldiiers, street boys, men and women of Seville
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
CONDUCTOR, CHARLES MACKERRAS
From
Sadler's Wells Theatre. London before an invited audience
The action takes place in and around Seville in 1820 Act 1
A square in ScviHe
Act 2
Lillas Pastia's tavern
Acts 3 and 4 at 9.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Unknown:
Ludovic Halevy
Music By:
Georges Bizet
Unknown:
Hermann Klein
Chorus-Master:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Walter Price
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Morales, a sergeant:
Peter Glossop
Micaela, a peasant girl:
Patricia Howard
Zuniga, lieutenant of the Dragoons:
Harold Blackburn
Don Jose, a corporal:
Robert Thomas
Gypsy girls:Carmen:
Anna Pollak
Mercedes:
Sheila Rex
Frasquita:
Helen Hilldex
Escamillo, a bull-fighter:
John Hargreaves
Smuggiers: Dancairo:
Denis Dowldng
Smuggiers: Remendado:
Ereach Riley

Appeal on behalf of the Mary Maoarthur Holiday Home for Working Women, by Dame Lilian Barker, D.B.E .
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
There are two Mary Macarchuc Holiday Homes-one at Poulron-le-Fylde, near Blackpool, and one at Stansted, Essex— which provide restful holidays for working women who could not otherwise afford a holiday. The ma:n object of the Homes is to provide a necessary rest to prevent illness. Visitors come from all parta of the British Isles, and include mothers and housewives as well as girls and women who are earning their livingtn every conceivable occupation They pay what they can afford, but approximately £ 7,000 has to be raised annually from voluntary sources to meet the costs of running the Homes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Lilian Barker, D.B.E
Unknown:
Dame Lilian Barker

Talk by Nikolaus Pevsner
Slade Proffessor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge
On the occasion of the bi-centenary of the Royal Society of Arts, Professor Pevsner considers the function of a society of this kind in bringing about an alliance between art and industry. He examines his theme in terms of 1750, 1850, and 1950.

Contributors

Talk By:
Nikolaus Pevsner
Talk By:
Slade Proffessor

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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