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Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton , and featuring
Sidney James , Bill Kerr
Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams
Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson

Contributors

Written By:
Alan Simpson
Written By:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Sidney James
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Conducted By:
Wally Stott
Produced By:
Dennis Main Wilson

LET'S JOIN IN. 'Miss Pussy and her Apple Tree' and 'Miss Pussy goes to her Cupboard': two stories by Diana Ross arranged for broadcasting with special guitar effects
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. 'Scarlatti and the Harpsichord': first of two illustrated talks by Gordon Reynolds
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. An Eighteenth-Century Election. Script by John Phillips

Contributors

Stories By:
Diana Ross
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Script By:
John Phillips

by Barbara Couper based on a story by Henry James
Cast in order of speaking:
Production by Mary Hope Allen

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Couper
Story By:
Henry James
Production By:
Mary Hope Allen
Mrs Beston:
Ella Milne
Miss Susan Frush:
Barbara Couper
Miss Amy Frush:
Marjorie Westbury
Alice:
Joan Ireland
Mr Patten:
Arthur Young
Cook:
Kathleen Helme

from Exeter Cathedral
Preces (Tomkins)
Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85
First Lesson: Ezekiel 20, w. 1-26 Magnificat (Dyson in F)
Second Lesson: St. John 18, w. 28-end
Nunc dimittis (Dyson in F) Creed
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Collects
Anthem: My soul, there Is a country
(Parry)
Prayers
The Grace
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in B minor on a subject of Corelli (Bach)
Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Lionel Dakers

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Dakers

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting-place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
Good Food: ' Not just cups of tea and biscuits, please,' says Doreen Norton Crackling in Hell: Grace Stuart learns something from a visit to a friend in hospital
Presented by Douglas Smith

Contributors

Presented By:
Douglas Smith

For Older Children
Peter Wyngarde in ' Captain of Dragoons '
A radio play in four parts by John Keir Cross from the novel by Ronald Welch
3—' A Pinch of Snuff'
Produced by David Davis
' It is still snuff that I am in pursuit of, as I enter the little tobacconist's shop of a certain Monsieur Henri Vallon, in a side-street: a rather special snuff, not quite to everyone's taste, recommended to me by a certain Colonel Henshall, and known as the Nantes mixture.... '
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. Moore Wasson

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Wyngarde
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Novel By:
Ronald Welch
Produced By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Rev. Moore Wasson
Captain Charles Carey:
Peter Wyngarde
Mr Desmond O'Neill:
Heron Carvic
The Duke of Perth:
Leslie French
James, the Pretender:
Nicky Edmett
Henri Vallon:
Peter Claughton
The Marquis de Grandmesnil:
Robert Farquharson
The Vicomte d'Assailly:
Lewis Stringer
Sir Rupert Creighton:
Howieson Culff

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Wales
Round 3
London:
Cedric Cliffe , Hubert Phillips
, Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Wales :
T. I . Ellis , Wyn Griffith
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Lionel Hale Wales
Unknown:
T. I Ellis
Unknown:
Wyn Griffith
Unknown:
Gilbert Harding

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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