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Marjorie Anderson introduces
Portrait of a Listener: Anne Wild talks to a regular listener to Home for the Day
Sidney Harrison talks about how dancing reflects ways of living.
Dorothy Farnsworth remembers the Sundays of sixty years ago.
For Amusement Only: How tolerant are you?: a character test with Pamela Frankau, Sybil Burr, and Brigadier W.P.A. Robinson.

(BBC Recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Interviewer (Portrait of a Listener):
Anne Wild
Reporter:
Sidney Harrison
Speaker:
Dorothy Farnsworth
Speaker:
Pamela Frankau
Speaker:
Sybil Burr
Speaker:
Brigadier W.P.A. Robinson

in East Anglia
A wild-life miscellany from the broads and breck, coast and fens of the lowland eastern counties
Edited and introduced by E. A. Ellis from Flatford Mill Field Centre,
Suffolk
ERic DUFFEY, Regional Officer of the Nature Conservancy, on the sand-and-flint heaths of the BrecklandT home of rare plants and animals
LORD CRANBROOK on the curious distribution and changing status of certain mammals-red and grey squirrels, grey seals, and coypu
DicK BAGNALL-OAKELEY on the unusual breeding birds of broad and fen, and the excitements of migration watching on the Norfolk coast
Jim Bingley , the Warden, on the work of naturalists young and old, professional and amateur, at Constable's Flatford Mill. now a Field Centre
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
E. A. Ellis
Unknown:
Dick Bagnall-Oakeley
Unknown:
Jim Bingley
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

* The Golden Windows '
A story by Laura Richards told by David
5.10 For Thy Great Glory
Building a Cathedral: COVENTRY
RICHARD MADDOCK tours the developing building to meet some of the people responsible for it and hears from the Provost of their hopes and plans. followed by A Children's Service for Trinity Sunday in the Chapel of the Cross conducted by Canon Edward Patey
Firmly I believe (A. and M. Rev. 186) First Lesson: Isaiah 6, vv. 1-8
A Prayer
Bright the vision (A. and M. Rev. 161) Second Lesson: Revelation 4
Anthem: 0 come, ye servants of the Lord
(Tye)
The Address
Prayers
City of God (A. and M. Rev. 258) The Blessing
The choir of King Henry VIII School, Coventry and a congregation of children who worship in the Chapel every Sunday
Master of the Music, Thomas Bell

Contributors

Story By:
Laura Richards
Unknown:
Richard Maddock
Conducted By:
Canon Edward Patey
Unknown:
King Henry Viii
Music:
Thomas Bell

Appeal on behalf of King Edward VII 's Hospital for Officers (Sister Agnes's) by Jack Hawkins
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers has both single rooms and small wards, and all commissioned officers of the three Services-whetber serving or retired-are eligible for admission. Serving officers are entitled to free nursing and maintenance in the ward beds. The hospital has its own consultant staff, whose fees are in accordance with the patients'. means, and there is a Samaritan Fund to help those in straitened circumstances.

Contributors

Unknown:
King Edward Vii
Unknown:
Jack Hawkins
Unknown:
Jack Hawkins

Liverpool
THE WINNER'S CONCERT
The Piano Concerto played by the winning contestant in the final session of the contest held last night with the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Peter Mountain)
Conducted by Herbert Menges
Before an invited audience in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
It is hoped also to include Cimarosa's Overture ' The Secret Marriage ' and movements from the Ballet Suite ' Swan Lake ' by Tchaikovsky

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert Menges

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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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