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Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
The Griller String Quartet on gramophone records
Quartet in F, Op. 3 No. 5 (Serenade)
(Haydn)
Songs:
If music be the food of love (Purcell) : with Walter Bergmann (harpsichord)
It fell on a summer's day (Campion); What then is love but mourning? (Rosseter): with Desmond Dupre (lute)
Two four-part Fantasies: No. 9; No. 3
(Purcell)
Minuet and Trio (Quartet in B flat,
Op. 103) (Haydn)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Deller
Harpsichord:
Walter Bergmann

TIME AND TUNE, by Kay Foster
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS i.
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. The Americans: Ways of Life and Trends of Thought in the U.S.A. today. 5— ' The Businessman and Government': Professor Corwin Edwards. Chief Economist to the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, talks about the role of government in a ' private enterprise ' society.

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Foster
Unknown:
Professor Corwin Edwards.

by John Buchan
Adapted as a serial play in six parts by Felix Felton
2-' Haraldsen's Son '
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
David Davis
Richard Hannay:
Alec Clunes
Mary, his wife:
Avice Landone
Peter John, his son:
Henry Searle
Lombard:
Felix Felton
Sandy Arbuthnot (Lord Clanroyden):
James McKechnie
Vlademar Haraldsen:
Olaf Olsen
Macgillivray:
Walter Fitzgerald
Jack Godstow:
John Glyn-Jones

TRAVEL TALKS. ' Round the Commonwealth. Hong Kong.' Script by Harold Ingrams , c.m.g.
2.20 LOOKING AT THINGS. 'Glass and Pottery.' Script by Olive Shapley.
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH i. ' Garram the Hunter ': a story of an African boy by H. Best. Adapted for broadcasting by June Hodge. 3-' Return to the Hills'

Contributors

Script By:
Harold Ingrams
Script By:
Olive Shapley.
Unknown:
H. Best.
Broadcasting By:
June Hodge.

' Treasure in Arden *
A light-hearted adventure for Children's Hour by Aubrey Feist
Part 6 (conclusion): ' Midsummer Night'
Produced by David Davis
' Permit me to make my last bow and reluctantly bid you farewell. Your very obedient servant-Mr. Hob! You have heard the story of our treasure-hunt-of how my three friends searched three old houses and failed to discover the Lost Sonnet. But that is not all. You may remember I said they would find " what there was to be found " on Midsummer Night. My night! The most magical night in all the year. You see, I knew that they had missed a clue. But come with me to the Vicarage garden on the morning of the Dress Rehearsal, and I will show you how Mr. Melville, Rodney, and Beecham are faring '

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Feist
Produced By:
David Davis
Mr Hob:
Leslie French
Rodney Valentine:
Derek Blomfield
Mr Vernon Melville:
Norman Chidgey
Ned Beecham:
Harold Reese
The Rev Augustus Courtney:
Laidman Browne
Elizabeth Courtney:
Nicolette Bernard
Miss D'Aubusson:
Judith Furse
Old Starling:
Frank Atkinson

Talk by the Rev. E. A. Payne , D.D., Vice-Chairman of the World Council of Churches
The first meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches since the Second Assembly in Evanston has iust been held in Geneva. Dr. Payne talks about how the Committee took up certain of the themes discussed in the Assembly.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. E. A. Payne

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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