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2-Howard Sturgis by Pamela Hansford Johnson
In this series of six talks, speakers have been invited to introduce listeners to a novelist who, in their opinion, is not as well known or as widely read as he ought to be.
Pamela Hansford Johnson has chosen
Howard Sturgis , author of Belchamber.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Howard Sturgis

Philip Toynbee
Benvenuto Cellini , artist, worker in metal, and sculptor, is an example of the ' many-sided Renaissance man' at his most extreme. Philip Toynbee talks about his Life, which has recently appeared in a new translation by George Bull.
Readers: James McKechnie and Peter Augustine

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Toynbee
Artist:
Benvenuto Cellini
Talks:
Philip Toynbee
Translation By:
George Bull.
Readers:
James McKechnie
Readers:
Peter Augustine

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Mozart (1756-1791)
The second of three special editions celebrating the bicentenary of his birth
•The Concert Arias,' by A. Hyatt
King
" Mozart as Improviser at the Keyboard.' by Peter Stadlen
1 Mozart's Writing for Wind Instruments, by Martha Kingdon-Ward

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Peter Stadlen
Unknown:
Martha Kingdon-Ward

Appeal on behalf of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
(registered under the War Charities Act, 1940) by the Viscount Hailsham , Q.c.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Immediate relief of distress, wherever it may arise in the world and whatever the cause, has been the main purpose of the Committee ever since its formation in Oxford in 1942. The Committee, which is representative of all the principal religious denominations in the University and the civic and business life of the city, has dispatched abroad nearly 500 tons of relief supplies in each of the past few years for distribution wherever the need was greatest, regardless of race, colour, or creed.

Contributors

Unknown:
Viscount Hailsham

Talk by Sir John Macpherson, G.C.M.G.
Governor of Nigeria 1948-1954, Sir John Macpherson was the first Governor-General of the newly formed Federation of Nigeria until his retirement last year.
In this talk Sir John answers some of the questions that people will have been asking themselves about what sort of a country Nigeria is, what Nigerians are like, and what is Nigeria's place in the Commonwealth.

Contributors

Speaker:
Sir John MacPherson

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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