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Regional Variations (4)

Signpost from the East Midlands. Interlude

BBC Home Service Midland

Interlude

BBC Home Service Welsh

Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

MAJOR LEWIS HASTINGS, M.C., who has spent a large part of his life in Southern and Central Africa, tells how he made friends with some wild animals while leaving them all the freedom of their own way of life.

Regional Variations (6)

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

The Farmer

BBC Home Service West

Rural Roundabout

BBC Home Service Welsh

Farming and fishing news

BBC Home Service Scottish

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

An agricultural weekly
The London Dairy Show
Alastair Dunnett and Harry Hunt talk with visitors to the Show on the opening day about the livestock, the produce, and the machinery exhibits
News commentary by Laurence Easterbrook
Chairman, Alastair Dunnett

Contributors

Commentary By:
Laurence Easterbrook
Unknown:
Alastair Dunnett

LET'S JOIN IN. 'The Horse that Talked': a moral tale by Monica Jarrett
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. Blowing the Brass: an illustrated talk by Dominic Cain.
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. Stanley Baldwin and the General Strike of 1926. Script by John Phillips

Contributors

Unknown:
Monica Jarrett
Talk By:
Dominic Cain.
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin
Script By:
John Phillips

Regional Variations (2)

Racing from the Maze Race-course, Co. Down. (

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A new play by Aileen Burke and Leone Stewart
Produced by Archie Campbell
When Miss Franklin read her newest detective story at the weekly meeting of the Writers' Circle she little dreamt what the consequences might be!

Contributors

Play By:
Aileen Burke
Unknown:
Leone Stewart
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Miss Franklin:
Beatrice Kane
Mrs Bryant, her landlady:
Betty Baskcomb
Mrs Sandersfield, a poetess:
Violet Gould
Members of the Writers' Circle:Major Lincoln:
Godfrey Kenton
Kit Prescot:
Sheila Grant
Bob Hicks:
John Bryning
Mrs Gillespie, Chairman:
Ella Milne
Caretaker:
Frederick Treves
Det -Insp Cathcart:
Duncan McIntyre
Harold Gillespie:
John Boddington

from Salisbury Cathedral
Sentence: Confession; Absolution The Lord's Prayer
Preces; Responses (Tallis) Psalms 108 and 109 First Lesson: Nehemiah 9. vv. 24-end Magnificat (Wi8e in E flat)
Second Lesson : Hebrews 11. vv. 17-end Nunc dimittis (Wise in E fiat)
Creed: Lesser Litany; Responses
(Tallis)
Collects
Anthem: Jesu, lover of my soul
(Stanton)
Pravers: The Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Christopher Dearnley
Assistant Organist, Richard Lloyd

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Dearnley
Organist:
Richard Lloyd

Tales of a Yorkshire Postmistress
Written and read by Hazel Chew
3—' Wedding Guests '
5.10 ' The Adventure of the Underwater Missile *
A new serial about the Derringer family by Alick Hayes
3 — ' Many a Slip '
Production by Herbert Smith
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Abbot of Downside
4-Authority

Contributors

Read By:
Hazel Chew
Unknown:
Alick Hayes
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Colonel Derringer:
Noel Johnson
Mary:
Sandra Chalmers
Dick:
Alan Bradley
Charles:
Jeffrey Denton
Lieut Warwick:
Norman Somers
Sub-Lieut Mather:
Bryden Murdoch
Professor Rogoff:
Fred Fairclough
Olga Vanna:
Valerie Skardon
Monty:
Leonard Williams
The Corporal:
Brian Trueman
Mr Evans:
Basil Jones
Elsie:
Sheila Huw Jones
Rogers:
Frank Poynter

Regional Variations (7)

News. sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News, sport. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News, sport

BBC Home Service North

News, sport

BBC Home Service Midland

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

News. sport

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

6.15 Local news and London Stock Market report
6.30 Today's Sport
6.35 Fred Streeter Advises
A weekly talk to gardeners in the South-East
6.15 6.25 VHF: Rowridge-
(92.9 Mc/s) for the South Coast:
Area news and weather summary

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Streeter

Regional Variations (2)

Mattie McKane (soprano); Malcolm McKeown (tenor) 8.I

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A series of dramatised true stories
Frank Duncan in ' THE PHANTOM MAJOR '
The book by Virginia Cowles dramatised for broadcasting by Giles Cooper
David Stirling , a young officer serving in the Western Desert in the early days of the war, was responsible for the formation of a unit which became known as the S.A.S., the Special Air Service.
This is the story of some of their exploits : of how, by travelling hundreds of miles across the desert in jeeps armed with a variety of weapons, they infiltrated with incredible effrontery into enemy territory and achieved remarkable results.
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Book By:
Virginia Cowles
Broadcasting By:
Giles Cooper
Broadcasting By:
David Stirling
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Emanuel Ziingel
Adapted from ' Les deux Veuves ' by Felicien Mallefille
English translation and abridged radio version by Geoffrey Dunn
Music by Smetana
The Widows:
Chorus of peasants and villagers
BBC Northern Singers
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Led by Ben Horsfall
Conducted byStanford Robinson
Producer, Geoffrey Dunn
Scene: On Karolina's estate in Bohemia, 1870
Full version to be broadcast in the Third Programme on Sunday, December 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Emanuel Ziingel
Unknown:
Les Deux Veuves
Unknown:
Felicien Mallefille
Unknown:
Geoffrey Dunn
Unknown:
Ben Horsfall
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Producer:
Geoffrey Dunn
Karolina Zaleska:
June Bronhill
Anezka her cousin:
Marion Lowe
Ladislav Podhajsky, a rich young farmer:
Lloyd Strauss-Smith
Bumble Karolina's gamekeeper:
Norman Lumsden

Regional Variations (3)

Scottish Life and Letters

BBC Home Service Scottish

Midland Miscellany: local history and the arts

BBC Home Service Midland

A series of interviews with well-known people
The Lady Wootton of Abinger answers personal questions put to her by Ruth Sinker
John Freeman , and George Scott

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Sinker
Unknown:
John Freeman
Unknown:
George Scott

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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About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More