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The third of six talks on Augustus Hare by Humphrey Higgens
During his time at Oxford Hare made friends with the eccentric and formidable Jowett, Tutor of Balliol; in the vacations he travelled much on the Continent, where he met, to his intense gratification, many members of the old nobility.
Reader, Richard Hurndall
Next talk: Sunday, November 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Augustus Hare
Unknown:
Humphrey Higgens
Reader:
Richard Hurndall

The Infamous Rocks
On November 14, 1698, the first lighthouse was built on the Eddystone Rocks near Plymouth
This programme tells the story of the lighthouse and the three towers that have replaced it with Peter Pearce. Malcolm Freegard
Douglas Leach , Ruby Luscombe
Francis Lunt , Mollie Tapper
Geoffrey Earle. Alan Blake
Norman Kendall , John Hamley
Percy Kershaw. Ivan Brandt
Narrator. Derek Jones
Written and produced by Roy Hayward
From the BBC's Plymouth studios
(A new production of the programme first broadcast in November 1954)
Roy Hayward writes on page 8

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Pearce.
Unknown:
Malcolm Freegard
Unknown:
Douglas Leach
Unknown:
Ruby Luscombe
Unknown:
Francis Lunt
Unknown:
Mollie Tapper
Unknown:
Geoffrey Earle.
Unknown:
Alan Blake
Unknown:
Norman Kendall
Unknown:
John Hamley
Unknown:
Percy Kershaw.
Narrator:
Ivan Brandt
Narrator:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
Roy Hayward
Unknown:
Roy Hayward
Henry Winstanley:
Wilfred Babbage
John Rudyerd:
Bert Middleton
John Smeaton:
Lewis Gedge
Sir James Douglass:
Edgar Harrison

C. A. Joyce introduces a dramatised illustration of the problem of right relations between friends and neighbours, and discusses it with the Rev. Wilfrid Garlick
Recorded illustration devised by R. T. Brooks and provided by Jeremy Bradbury Geoffrey Banks. Rosalie Williams and Charles Leno
Further broadcasts in this series on November 13 and 20

Contributors

Introduces:
A. Joyce
Unknown:
Rev. Wilfrid Garlick
Unknown:
R. T. Brooks
Provided By:
Jeremy Bradbury
Provided By:
Geoffrey Banks.
Provided By:
Rosalie Williams
Provided By:
Charles Leno

Appeal on behalf of the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, by Rex Palmer
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Rex Palmer, Esq., [address removed]
The Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth in St. John's Wood, London, celebrates its centenary next year. Founded in Great Ormond Street, it was placed under the care of the Sisters of Mercy, four of whom had been nurses in the Crimea with Florence Nightingale. In 1898 the hospital was transferred to St. John's Wood. St. John and St. Elizabeth is a general hospital. Equipped with 175 beds, it admitted a record total of 2,578 patients during its last financial year. Since the hospital is not state-controlled, it is mainly dependent on voluntary subscriptions. The hospital's need of support is very great indeed, especially when it is remembered that those who cannot afford to pay receive their treatment free.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Palmer
Unknown:
Florence Nightingale.

The second book of ' The Forsyte Saga ' by John Galsworthy
Adapted for broadcasting in twelve parts by Muriel Levy
Part 2
Other parts played by Mairhi Russell and Molly Rankin
Production by Hugh Stewart
(Guy Rolfe broadcasts by permission oj Associated British Pictures Corporation)
Old Jolyon Forsyte dies, leaving a life interest in £ 15,000 to Irene, the beautiful but estranged wife of Soames Forsyte , the ' Man of Property.' Young Jolyon , a cousin and executor and himself attracted to Irene, breaks the news to her, and causes a fresh scandal among the older generation of the Forsytes.
Soames, having met an attractive
French girl, Annette, considers divorcing Irene, much against his better judgment.
Meanwhile he has to settle the affairs of his sister Winifred Dartie , whose husband has run off with a Spanish girl, taking with him his wife's pearls.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Galsworthy
Played By:
Mairhi Russell
Played By:
Molly Rankin
Production By:
Hugh Stewart
Unknown:
Guy Rolfe
Unknown:
Jolyon Forsyte
Unknown:
Soames Forsyte
Unknown:
Young Jolyon
Unknown:
Winifred Dartie
Jolyon:
Guy Rolfe
Irene:
Grizelda Hervey
Soames:
Ronald Simpson
Winifred:
Catherine Nangle
Montie Dartie:
Cyril Shaps
George:
George Hagan
Val:
Charles Hodgson
Crum:
Denis Goacher
Emily:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
James:
Laidman Browne
Annette:
Virginia Winter
Wormson:
Martin Lewis

by Nikolaus Pevsner
3-Reynolds and Detachment
Sir Joshua Reynolds 's discourses to students of the Royal Academy express a doctrine which he himself never followed. Young painters, he said, were to study and imitate the antique and the historical, however wearisome this might seem at first, and thus avoid the vulgarity of the faithful portrait. Dr. Pevsner, finds the discrepancy between precept and practice profoundly English.
These lectures will be printed in ' The Listener '

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Pevsner
Unknown:
Sir Joshua Reynolds

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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