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A magazine programme edited and introduced by James Fisher
In the Field
James Fisher introduces a springtime excursion out of doors in the company of a Wiltshire river bailiff, Frank Sawyer ; a Yorkshire game-keeper, Waiter Flesher ; a Northern Ireland schoolmaster. Arnold Bening ton; and a Yorkshire engineer who makes his own wild-life recordings, John Kirby
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Introduces:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Frank Sawyer
Unknown:
Waiter Flesher
Unknown:
Arnold Bening
Unknown:
John Kirby
Produced By:
Desmond Hawkins

A radio play by Georgie Henschel adapted from the novel of Horace Annesley Vachell
The action passes in and around Tom Kinsman's riding school in the West-
Country village of Puddenhurst.
Produced by Owen Reed

Contributors

Play By:
Georgie Henschel
Unknown:
Horace Annesley Vachell
Produced By:
Owen Reed
Tom Kinsman:
Wilfred Babbaga
' Missy ' Kinsman, his daughter:
Angela Brooking
Bert:
Frank Atkinson
Roddy Selwin:
Tony Britton
George Selwin, his father:
Malcolm Graeme
Mary Chaundy:
Georgie Henschel
Emily Green:
Sarah Stannard
Sir Montagu Brambleby:
Norman Tyrrell
Sir John:
Lewis Gedge
Harry Slufter:
Bryan Coleman
A Superintendent of Police:
Ronald Baddiley
Gypsies: Joey:
Douglas Leach
Zeke:
Colin Campbell
Big Ike:
Hedley Goodall
A Farmer:
Douglas Horner

Serenade for Children in which the story and music are all about creatures with wings
The Singer: Colin Day
The Storyteller: Bryden Murdoch
The Trio: The Alban Trio
The Story: Geraldino ' by J. D. Westwood
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
5.25 For Older Children
'Revolution and Rattlesnakes '
A programme of sounds from Paraguay by Gerald and Jacqueline Durrell
Last year Gerald and Jacqueline Durrell were in the Paraguayan Chaco collecting animals for zoos. This programme about their trip includes recordings of guitar music and of the animal and bird noises they heard.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
J. D. Westwood
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Produced By:
Jacqueline Durrell
Produced By:
Jacqueline Durrell

Libretto by Piave
Music by Verdi
(sung in the original Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins )
CONDUCTED BY JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer, Peter Ebert
Head of Music Staff. Jani Strasser
Act 1
Scene 1: Leonorn's bedchamber in her fathef's castle near Seville
Scene 2: An inin the mountain village of Hornachuelos
From the King's Theatre. Edinburgh

Contributors

Music By:
Verdi
Chorus-Master:
Peter Gellhorn
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Unknown:
Peter Ebert
Unknown:
Jani Strasser

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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