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THE music Box, by Gordon Reynolds
2.10 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. Musical Transport: second of two talks by Frank Daunton
2.30 THE JACKSONS. Island in the Fen. Script by Philip Mann. (BBC recording)
2.50 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' The Rash Bride ' and ' The Bird Catcher's Boy ' by Thomas Hardy

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Frank Daunton
Script By:
Philip Mann.
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy

by Sheila Hodgson adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Characters in order of speaking:
and Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hodgson
Radio By:
Cynthia Pughe
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Charles Mallory:
Richard Hurndall
Maud Vickers, his mother-in-law:
Kathleen Helme
Robert Vickers, her brother-in-law:
Duncan McLntyre
Joan Mallory, her daughter:
Jill Raymond
Pratt, a head porter:
Keith Williams
Dr Lewis:
Norman Claridge
Elsa Liebeck:
Mary Wimbush
Craddock a reporter:
David Enders
Father Giffard:
Douglas Storm
Firemen:
Keith Williams
Firemen:
Nicky Edmett

For Children of All Ages
' The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
Arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin with music by H. Fraser-Simson
3—' The Wild Wood '
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
Music Room
A series of monthly talks edited and introduced by David
HENRY PURCELL
(1659-1695)
Three programmes by William Mann with musical illustrations
3 — ' The First English Opera'
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
May Jenkin
Music By:
H. Fraser-Simson
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Introduced By:
Henry Purcell
Unknown:
William Mann
The Mole:
Richard Goolden
The Water Rat:
Frank Duncan
The Badger:
Richard George
The Storyteller:
Mary O'Farrell

Regional Variations (7)

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

News, sport

BBC Home Service Midland

News

BBC Home Service North

News, sport. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Local news and London Stock Market report
6.30 Today's Sport
6.40 Town and Country
A magazine for listeners in London and the counties of the South-East
6.15 6.25 VHF: Rowridge
(92.9 Mc/s) for the South Coast:
Area news and weather summary

to meet
H.H. Princess Marthe Bibesco
Reminiscence
John Betjeman On the Telephone
Edward Chapman ' Courts Day by Day '
The late
Robert Donat
Reading a Poem
J. B. Boothroyd
Mainly for Men
Jonathan Miller
It takes more than apples
Ren6 Cutforth
Personal Comment
Stephens and Macdowell
Bombay Duck
Musical interludes chosen by Robert Irwin
Edited and produced by John Bridges

Contributors

Unknown:
John Betjeman
Unknown:
Edward Chapman
Unknown:
Robert Donat
Unknown:
J. B. Boothroyd
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Robert Irwin
Produced By:
John Bridges

Adapted by Edward Hyams from the story by Frank Harris
Produced by R. D. Smith
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Marion Mathie
Diana Olsson , Pauline Yates and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The setting of the play is the State of Kansas and the Indian Reserve in the 1870s. *

Contributors

Adapted By:
Edward Hyams
Story By:
Frank Harris
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Played By:
Marion Mathie
Played By:
Diana Olsson
Unknown:
Pauline Yates
George Bancroft:
John Glen
Loo:
Corinne Langston
Elder Conklin:
MacDonald Parke
Mrs Conklin:
Margaret Vines
Mrs Morris:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Morris:
Jeffrey Segal
Jessie Stevens:
Julia Hand
Seth Stevens:
Denis Holmes
Jake Conklin:
Errol MacKinnon
General Custer:
Richard Williams
Barkman:
Alan Tilvern

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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