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Five short stories by W.W. Jacobs.
Adapted for radio by Lionel Brown.
(The recorded broadcast of December 29, 1957, in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Author:
W.W. Jacobs
Adapted by:
Lionel Brown
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Bill:
John Bryning
Mrs. Cook:
Joan Sanderson
Old Cook:
Allan Jeayes
George Smith:
Peter Wilde
Emma Cook:
Beryl Calder
Charlie Cook:
Nancy Nevinson
Jack Bates:
Jack May

Overture on Russian Themes (Balakirev): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Lovro von Matacic

Violin Concerto No. 5, in A minor (Vieuxtemps): Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Anatole Fistoulari

Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda) (Ponchielli): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
on gramophone records

Contributors

Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra conducted by:
Lovro von Matacic
Violinist:
Yehudi Menuhin
Orchestra conducted by:
Anatole Fistoulari
Orchestra conducted by:
Herbert Von Karajan

Let Twenty Pass
by F. J. Teskey.
Setting: A cliff walk

The King of Spain's Daughter
by Teresa Deevy.
Adapted for broadcasting by Marianne Helweg.
Setting: A grassy lane in Ireland

Polinka
by Anton Chekhov.
Dramatised by Teresa Deevy.
Setting: A Moscow warehouse

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Plays produced by:
Ronald Mason
Writer (Let Twenty Pass):
F.J. Teskey
Stella:
Georgine Anderson
A Man:
John Ruck Keene
Ellen:
Monica Cardy
Author (The King of Spain's Daughter):
Teresa Deevy
Adapted by (The King of Spain's Daughter):
Marianne Helweg
Peter Kinsella:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Jim Harris:
James Ellis
Mrs Marks:
Nita Hardie
Annie Kinsella:
Eileen Madden
Roddy Mann:
Maurie Taylor
Author (Polinka):
Anton Chekhov
Dramatised by (Polinka):
Teresa Deevy
Nikolay:
Norman Stevenson
Polinka:
Margaret Waine
Others taking part:
James Boyce
Others taking part:
Betty Hogg
Others taking part:
Michael McKechnie

from the Cathedral Church of St. Mary (Scottish Episcopal), Edinburgh.
Sentence; Confession: Absolution
Preces; Responses (Tallis)
Psalms 53. 54, 55
First Lesson: Isaiah 29. vv. 1-14
Magnificat (Watson in E)
Second Lesson: Revelation 14. vv. 1-13
Nunc dimittis (Watson in E)
Creed; Lesser Litany: the Lord's Prayer
Responses (Tallis)
Collects
Anthem: Bow thine ear, O Lord (Byrd)
Wake, O wake! with tidings thrilling (E.H. 12, vv. 1 and 2)

Contributors

Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Eric Parsons

For Older Children: Masquerade: 6: Conclusion: The Prisoner of Pomerel
An eighteenth-century romance in six episodes by Aubrey Feist.

'Ring down the curtain on our Masquerade,
But pray remember-Vice is oft arrayed
As sweet and smiling Virtue (pretty liar!)
While Virtue walks in villainous attire. Permit a friend to whisper in your ears
That handsome is as handsome does, my dears!'

5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Conducted by the Rev. Eric Barber.

Contributors

Writer:
Aubrey Feist
Producer:
David Davis Julian Ashby: David Peel
Tom Bligh:
Basil Jones
Miranda Bellamy:
Prunella Scales
Chloe Nightingale:
Elizabeth London
Count Emilio Zeppi:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Mr. Bounty:
Cyril Shaps
The Man in the Mirror:
Leslie Heritage
Prayers conducted by (Children's Hour prayers):
The Rev. Eric Barber

visits Headington in Oxfordshire for songs and dances.
With William Kimber, Jim Phillips
Headington Quarry Morris Men and Handbell Ringers
Bidford and Breakdowners Square Dance Band
Programme arranged and introduced by Kenneth Clark.
(BBC recording)
(Kenneth Clark broadcasts by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society)

Contributors

Concertina:
William Kimber
Performer:
Jim Phillips
Dancers/Musicians:
Headington Quarry Morris Men and Handbell Ringers
Musicians:
Bidford and Breakdowners Square Dance Band
Guest:
Bob Arnold
Programme arranged and introduced by:
Kenneth Clark

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions.
London: Professor Denis Brogan, Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
North: Professor W. Lyon Blease, Dennis Chapman
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
(BBC recording)
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10

Contributors

Contestant (London):
Professor Denis Brogan
Contestant (London):
Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master (London):
Lionel Hale
Contestant (North):
Professor W. Lyon Blease
Contestant (North):
Dennis Chapman
Quiz-Master (North):
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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