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Regional Variations (2)

Signpost from the East Midlands.* Interlude

BBC Home Service Midland

A series of four talks by Jocelyn Bradford
4-The Chelsea Pensioners
In 1682 Charles II founded the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, as a home for old veterans of the Regular Army who had been broken by wars or wounds. In Wren's classic building, the Chelsea Pensioners have lived happily ever since. Jocelyn Bradford tells you today about them, their life and their surroundings.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jocelyn Bradford
Unknown:
Jocelyn Bradford

Regional Variations (4)

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

Farming and fishing news

BBC Home Service Scottish

An agricultural weekly
Donald Smith , who farms at Tilling-ham, Essex, gives his experiences of winter grass for mHk production
Derek Chambers , of the Grassland Research Institute, Hurley, talks about the outdoor rearing of calves
News commentary by Anthony Parkin
Chairman, Clifford Selly

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Smith
Unknown:
Derek Chambers
Commentary By:
Anthony Parkin
Unknown:
Clifford Selly

Regional Variations (2)

Record Recovery: patients' record requests

BBC Home Service Midland

Script by Godfrey Harrison
4 — ' How A Life of Bliss came to be written '
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

Contributors

Script By:
Godfrey Harrison
Produced By:
Leslie Bridgmont
David Bliss:
George Cole
Anne Fellows:
Diana Churchill
Tony Fellows:
Colin Gordon
Psyche the dog:
Percy Edwards
Zoe Hunter:
Sheila Sweet
Avril Seymour:
Lesley Nunnerley

LET'S JOIN IN. ' Four and Twenty Blackbirds': an amusing dramatisation by Jean Sutcliffe of the traditional nursery rhyme.
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. Pictures and Stories in Music: an illustrated talk by John Hosier.
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. Mirabeau and Constitutional Monarchy. Script by John Tutiy

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Talk By:
John Hosier.
Script By:
John Tutiy

A new play for radio by Roger Leigh
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts: members of the cast
Production by Audrey Cameron
Tom and Maisie Edge, with their teenage daughter Jenny and schoolboy son Peter, are leaving Summerhill where Tom has lived all his life. They are going to a new house outside Reading -Tom to work on a farm, and Jenny in the Civil Service Tom soon finds that he has a great deal more to contend with than he had bargained for-not the least of his worries being the behaviour of his daughter Jenny.

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Leigh
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Tom Edge:
Ronald Baddiley
Maisie his wife:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Peter, their son:
Michael Crawford
Jenny, their daughter:
Beryl Calder
Alan:
John Scott
Bert Trobridge a farm foreman:
Anthony Viccars
Councillor Powell:
Will Leighton
A Teddy boy:
Harold Reese
Kiddo, another Teddy boy:
David Spenser
Francie:
Sheila Manahan
Brick O'Halloran:
David March
Inspector Harding:
Duncan McLntyre
Hotel receptionist:
Ella Milne

From Bristol Cathedral
Confession; Absolution; the Lord's
Prayer
Responses (Bristol Use) Psalms 73. 74
First Lesson: Hosea 2, vv. 1-13
Magnificat (Tomkins, Second Service) Second Lesson: Galatians 3
Nunc dimittis (Tomkins, Second
Service)
Creed: Lesser Litany; the Lord's
Prayer
Responses (Bristol Use) Collects
Anthem: Deliver us, 0 Lord
(Gibbons)
Prayers: The Grace
Organ Voluntary: To God on high be glory (Fughetta) (Bach)
Organist and Master of the Choristers.
Clifford Harker

Contributors

Unknown:
Clifford Harker

For the Younger Ones
'The Log of the Ark' by Kenneth Walker and Geoffrey Boumphrey told by Norman Shelley
3-' The Arrival of the Animals'
5.15 For Older Children
' The Long Journey *
A historical play for children written by Constance Teear
3—' In the hands of the enemy '
Other parts played by Prysor Williams and D. L. Davies
Production by Ifan O. Williams
The action of the play takes place in Wales and the Marches in the year 1S3S.
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. R. T. Brooks

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Walker
Unknown:
Geoffrey Boumphrey
Told By:
Norman Shelley
Written By:
Constance Teear
Played By:
Prysor Williams
Played By:
D. L. Davies
Production By:
Ifan O. Williams
Unknown:
Rev. R. T. Brooks
Lav-brothers at the Abbey of Dolfa: David:
Brinley Jenkins
Lav-brothers at the Abbey of Dolfa: David Paul:
John Darran
Marl Williams:
Margaret Leigh
Huso Crop-Ears:
Dillwyn Owen
Morgan One-Eye:
Ieuan Rhys Williams
Blodwen, Morgan's wife:
Dilys Davies
Bishop Rowland Lee:
Norman Wynne
Francis Povey, Lord of Brackfell:
Nicholas Selby

Regional Variations (7)

News, sport

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News. sport

BBC Home Service North

News. sport. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News, sport

BBC Home Service Midland

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

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 (4)

The Pleasure of Your Company: with Alistair McHarg. Sheila Buxton, and the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra

BBC Home Service Scottish

Ulster Farm: magazine

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

) Bandstand Special: Munn and Felton's (Footwear) Band '

BBC Home Service Midland

Impressions of the celebrated cellist presented, with records, by William Mann

Contributors

Unknown:
William Mann

Regional Variations (2)

Piping by John Garroway

BBC Home Service Scottish

Sir Compton Mackenzie describes his return to Greece last September after an interval of forty-two years
' I had my first sight of Greece coming from the Dardanelles in August 1915. Sir Ian Hamilton had insisted on my going for medical attention to Athens in the Imogen, our old Embassy yacht in Constantinople which brought us mail and messengers every week. I can hear his voice now. " You're looking wretchedly ill, and I don't w,ant to lose another of you young writers." He was referring to the death of Rupert Brooke. '

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
Sir Ian Hamilton
Unknown:
Rupert Brooke.

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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