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A programme for mothers and fathers
Bringing Up a Large Family
Three mothers, with eight. five, and six children respectively, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a large family
Mary Bruce , Deirdre Barrett
Margery Fisher
In the chair, Joan Yorke
Arranged by Eileen Molony

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Bruce
Unknown:
Deirdre Barrett
Unknown:
Margery Fisher
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Arranged By:
Eileen Molony

by Harold Melvin

Nowadays the new entrant to the Civil Service has Welfare Officers to look after him and numerous associations and societies he can join, but he will never play 'Brugby' or range over the roof-tops from Downing Street to the Horse Guards. Harold Melvin recalls what it was like to be a very young Civil Servant in 1904.

Contributors

Speaker:
Harold Melvin

A radio play by ' Sea Lion' from his novel
' Damn Desmond Drake '
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Production by Michael Bakewell

Contributors

Production By:
Michael Bakewell
Colonel Fedden:
Godfrey Kenton
Lt -Cmdr Desmond Drake:
Frederick Treves
Louise Leicester:
Sheila Manahan
The Hon Timothy Widcombe:
Denis Goacher
Sidney:
Anthony Viccars
Capt Bob Bristol:
John Bennett
Capt Ramsay:
Will Leighton
Dr Stephen Brandt:
Leigh Crutchley
Lieut ' Panda ' Nelson:
Frank Windsor
Lieut 'Doormouse' Hood:
Peter Wilde
Peronl:
John Cazabon
Albert Rusher:
George Merritt
Hermann Vogel:
David March
Lt -Cmdr Reeves:
Denis Goacher
Judith Hagen:
Ernestine Costa
The Rt Hon Llewellyn-Reece:
Rolf Lefebvre

for the Feast of the Transfiguration from St. Bride's Church,
Fleet Street, London
Versicles and Responses (Ferial)
(Tallis)
Psalms: 32 and 33 First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 48, vr.
1-16
Magnificat (Tallis in the Dorian mode) Second Lesson: 2 Peter 1, vv. 12-end Nunc dimittis (Tallis in the Dorian mode)
Creed. Suffrages, Responses (Ferial)
(Tallis)
Collects
Anthem: Angel Spirits ever blessed
( Tchaikovsky)
Prayers
The Grace
Bright the vision (A. and M. ReT.
161: Tune. Laus Deo)
Organ Voluntary: Extemporisation on Hymn 161
Organist and Director of Music
Gordon Reynolds
Assistant Organist, David Parkea

Contributors

Organist:
David Parkea

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older- people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
What I Owe My Budgerigar: Cyril James owes his small pet an unexpected but very real debt of gratitude
More About Kimbo: Grace Stuart tells how her dog enlivens summer holidays
Presented by Douglas Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril James
Unknown:
Grace Stuart
Presented By:
Douglas Smith

For Children of Most Ages
' The Seven Days '
A series of seven stories written and told by Barbara Sleigh
7-Sunday's Child
But the child that is born on the Sabbath
Day
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay
5.15 For Listeners of All Ages
' Lanterns over the Lune *
Adapted by Kathleen 'idler from her book of the same title
2—' The Search for the Old Dog Lad '
Production by Trevor Hill
When Simon Corlett tells the Jacobite agent that there is a plot to hand him over to Colonel Charteris, O'Neill decides to take desperate measures. He cannot take the risk of his precious despatches falling into the hands of Government forces, so he and Simon arrange to make their escape ashore.
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by J. Stanley Pritchard

Contributors

Told By:
Barbara Sleigh
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Simon Corlett
Conducted By:
J. Stanley Pritchard
Young Simon Corlett:
Alan Rothwell
Captain Skillicorn, of the Fenella:
Richard Courtney
Lieutenant O'Neill, an agent:
Bryden Murdoch
Sailors: Saul Kermode:
John Daglish
Sailors: Mike Kelly:
Harold Rottesman
Sailors: Curphey:
John Broadbent
John Norris, landlord of The Cocks Inn:
Tom Harrison
Squire Dalton:
Fred Wilson
Colonel Charteris:
Ralph Hallett
Tom Bamber, the salmon fisher:
Geoffrey Matthews
Two Gvpsy youths: Nathan:
John Daglish
Two Gvpsy youths: Peter:
Harold Rottesman
Macready, a Scots packman:
Geoffrey Banks
Edward Tyldesley:
Norman Somers
Mistress Agnes Tyldesley:
Vida Paterson

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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