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Regional Variations (3)

A la Carte: a lunch-time session with West-Country musicians -Ken Allen and his Orchestra.

BBC Home Service West

Town Forum: Ceylon

BBC Home Service Midland

Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band
Songs from the Stargazers and Guest singer, Virginia Somers
Individual music from
Harold Smart, Bert Weedon and Dennis Wilson
Produced by John Browell

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Stapleton
Unknown:
Bert Weedon
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Produced By:
John Browell

Regional Variations (7)

As West.

BBC Home Service Midland

Children's Hour. ' Junket and Cream.'* 'Gunpowder Tunnel': serial play in three episodes from the book by Bruce Carter. 2-' The Boy in the River.'

BBC Home Service West

As West.

BBC Home Service North

Children's Hour. Stories. 'The Hill of the Red Fox': play in six parts. 2-' The Friends of Black Alasdair.'

BBC Home Service Scottish

As West.

BBC Home Service Welsh

As West

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

For Children of Most Ages
'Coster Turn-Out'
Jimmy Duckworth 's own and true story written down by Peter Shaw Baker and told by Ernest Jay
5—' Pearly Banquet'
It was given by a Society lady down at Kensington, and listeners will agree it was a rare good one.
For Older Children
'Willikin of the Weald'
A romantic drama set in the days of Henry in devised and written in six episodes by Aubrey Feist 5
—' The Knight' of the Broken Shackle '
Produced by Eve Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Duckworth
Unknown:
Peter Shaw Baker
Told By:
Ernest Jay
Unknown:
Aubrey Feist
Produced By:
Eve Burgess
Willikin of the Weald:
Michael Warre
Nicola, his wife:
Olive Gregg
William the Marshal:
John Richmond
Sir Richard de Gys:
Carleton Hobbs
Fulk Fitz-Oon, his squire:
Seymour Green
Brand, parish priest of Kensham:
Geoffrey Wincott
Robin-A-Rye:
Lewis Stringer
Monks of Battle Abbey:
Carleton Hobbs
Monks of Battle Abbey:
Frank Atkinson

Regional Variations (7)

News. Friday Topic. Sport.

BBC Home Service Scottish

News, sport

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News, sport.

BBC Home Service Midland

News. sport.

BBC Home Service West

News. sport.

BBC Home Service North

News. sport.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Today's results and weekend preview including a special report by Max Robertson from Cortina on the Winter Olympic Games
Introduced by John Snagge

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Robertson
Introduced By:
John Snagge

Regional Variations (3)

James Young in 'Young's Way'; Variety.

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Home Town Variety from Neath. with WSlliam Edwards: Billy Rowe; Trevor Owen; The Dollar Boys: Maudie Edwards. Introduced by Wyn Calvin.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Highlights of the Show World
Stars of the stage, screen, radio, and concert platform, with the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Produced by John Simmonds

Contributors

Produced By:
John Simmonds

Regional Variations (6)

Choral Concert

BBC Home Service Midland

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Deil's Wark': a light-hearted Doric fantasy by Angus Morrison. Music played by Andrew Cooper (violin). Strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Gerald Gentry

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Faith in the West: including an account by Alan Gibson on Evangelism and the popular song. and a discussion between E. W. Martin and the Rev. John Paget on the work of the Church.

BBC Home Service West

The Northcountryman.

BBC Home Service North

Edited by Maxwell Knight
Speakers:
Maxwell Knight
James Fisher
Peter Conder
Philip Le Masurier
R. Maxwell Savage
H. V. Thompson
Guy Mountfort
Produced by Brandon Acton-Bond
This first edition concentrates chiefly on events in 1955

Contributors

Edited By:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Peter Conder
Unknown:
Philip Le Masurier
Unknown:
R. Maxwell Savage
Unknown:
H. V. Thompson
Unknown:
Guy Mountfort
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond

Regional Variations (5)

William Fellowes (piano)

BBC Home Service Midland

Talk on the new VHF Service for Ulster

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Scots Songs sung by Flora Blythman (contralto).

BBC Home Service Scottish

Feature: How Nice to Meet Mr. Coleridge. Script by Oliver Merchard Bishop.

BBC Home Service West

Cello Sonata played by Eleanor Warren (cello)
Paul Hamburger (piano)
The fourth in a series of programmes of music by John Ireland

Contributors

Cello:
Eleanor Warren
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Music By:
John Ireland

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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