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Today's Bill
Overture: Showtime
Augmented
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Radio: Bell and Bernard
Records: Neville Taylor
Variety: Felix Bowness
TV: Jill Day
Late Extra
Produced by David Miller

Contributors

Leader:
George Deason
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Unknown:
Neville Taylor
Unknown:
Felix Bowness
Produced By:
David Miller

Plot the Spot and Figure it Out
Two new panel games devised and compiled by John P. Wynn
The Panel:
Robert Beatty , Charmian Innes
Fred Cooke , Audrey Russell
Chairman, Michael Miles
Programme produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
Charmian Innes
Unknown:
Fred Cooke
Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Michael Miles
Produced By:
Joan Clark

Travel Talks: Round the Commonwealth. Patrick Keatley talks about ' Wheat from the Canadian Prairies '
2.20 Looking at Things: Roads and Traffic.' Script by George Williams
2.40 Senior English i. ' The Eagle of the Ninth ': a story of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff. Adapted for broadcasting by Michael Hyde. Part 3 — ' The Eagle,

Contributors

Talks:
Patrick Keatley
Script By:
George Williams
Unknown:
Roman Britain
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff.
Broadcasting By:
Michael Hyde.

by Pamela Hansford Johnson
Dramatised for broadcasting in seven episodes by Max Kester
4 — ' A Love Letter and a Journey'
Produced by Archie Campbell
No sooner has Catherine scored her first real success in the theatre than she finds her happiness threatened by complications in her private no less than her professional life. Conflicting loyalties involve a difficult choice.
(The recorded broadcast of July 5. 1954, in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Max Kester
Produced By:
Archie Campbell

' The House on the Hill '
. The story of a family home and the people who lived in it
Written by Jack Morpurgo
3 —' The Tudor House '
Music chosen in collaboration with Catherine Morpurgo Produced by Peggy Bacon
5.40 For Older Children
Looking Glass
A new series of talks in which men and women who have made a name in the world hold a mirror up to life and say what they see in it
3-Pat Smythe : Show Jumper

Contributors

Written By:
Jack Morpurgo
Unknown:
Catherine Morpurgo
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

This week's guests:
Eric Barker and Pearl Hackney and Bernard Miles with Vanessa Lee , Pat Coombs David Jacobs and The Coronets
And presenting Hubert Gregg and his Songs about London
3-' Every time the lights go up in Piccadilly '
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Musical arrangements by Bob Sharpies
Script edited by Gale Pedrick
Produced by Roy Speer

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Barker
Unknown:
Pearl Hackney
Unknown:
Bernard Miles
Unknown:
Vanessa Lee
Unknown:
Pat Coombs
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Hubert Gregg
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Arrangements By:
Bob Sharpies
Edited By:
Gale Pedrick
Produced By:
Roy Speer

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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