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from the National Radio Show at Earls Court
Overture: Curtain Call
Malcolm Lockyer and his Orchestra
Radio:
Four in A Chord
Variety: George Martin
TV: Kay Cavendish
Records: Frankie Vaughan
Late Extra
Produced by Bill Worsley
(Frankie Vaughan is appearing in Wildfire ' at the Empress Hall, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Lockyer
Unknown:
George Martin
Unknown:
Kay Cavendish
Unknown:
Frankie Vaughan
Produced By:
Bill Worsley
Produced By:
Frankie Vaughan

A dramatised feature
Written and produced by Willy Richardson with Gordon Jackson as Alexander Mackay and Lewis Stringer as the narrator
Among the young men who were inspired by the example of the great missionary, David Livingstone , was a young Scots engineer named Alexander Mackay. In April 1876 he joined an expedition for Central Africa, sent out by the Church Missionary Society, and spent the rest of his life teaching and working in Uganda.
(The recorded broadcast of June 6 in the BBC's General Overseas Service)

Contributors

Produced By:
Willy Richardson
Unknown:
Gordon Jackson
Unknown:
Alexander MacKay
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
David Livingstone
Unknown:
Alexander MacKay.

For Older Listeners
' Dangerous Waters *
A serial story in six parts by Jack Cox
6—' Rescue by Helicopter'
Reader, Basil Jones
5.15 Musical Interlude followed by 'The Adventures of Deadline Donovan'
A serial play by W. B. Macmillan and Harold Ballantyne
6—' The Baby-Sitter'
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Cox
Reader:
Basil Jones
Play By:
W. B. MacMillan
Play By:
Harold Ballantyne
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Charlie Currie Mercury lift-man:
Leonard Maguire
Visitors to the Mercury office: Boy:
Gordon MacDonald
Visitors to the Mercury office: Girl:
Joan Fitzpatrick
J B Tweed, the Editor:
Douglas Robin
Steve Murray, chief reporter:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Deadline Donovan, copy-boy:
John Carlin
Monty Lambert, author and naturalist:
Lain Cuthbertson
Patricia Lambert, his wife:
Marjorie Dalziel
Two far-travelled children: Ronnie Lambert:
Pat Leckie
Two far-travelled children: Ronnie Lambert Gay Lambert:
Joan Fitzpatrick
Hector Murdoch, a shepherd:
Douglas Murchie
Lord Twinstairs owner of the Mercury:
Leonard Maguire

Ida Haendel (violin)
Kyla Greenbaum (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Granville Jones )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1: Beethoven
Overture: Coriolanus
7.41 app. Violin Concerto in D
8.25 app. Symphony No. 4, in B flat

Contributors

Violin:
Ida Haendel
Piano:
Kyla Greenbaum
Leader:
Granville Jones
Conducted By:
Basil Cameron

by Stephen Potter with interruptions by Joyce Grenfell and illustrations by Carleton Hobbs. Betty Hardy
Malcolm Graeme. David Spenser
Philip Vickers
Production by Stephen Potter and D. G. Bridson
Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell have both visited the United States earlier this year. Their third and last programme in the series, 'How To Know America Really Well,' will be broadcast next Friday.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Illustrations By:
Carleton Hobbs.
Illustrations By:
Betty Hardy
Illustrations By:
Malcolm Graeme.
Illustrations By:
David Spenser
Illustrations By:
Philip Vickers
Production By:
Stephen Potter
Production By:
D. G. Bridson
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell

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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