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Popular favourites for the older listener sung by Francis Pope (tenor) with Ruby Taylor (piano)
Dudley Savage (organ) and a chorus from the Bristol Light Opera Club
Chorus-Master, Vernon Jones
Introduced by Dudley Savage and based on requests collected by Hampshire Council of Social Service

Contributors

Tenor:
Francis Pope
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

A new play for radio by Gilbert Travers Thomas
A good personality, drive, ability to handle men-these are Richard's stock-in-trade when he is axed from the Army. Every ex-officer makes the same claim.
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert Travers Thomas
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Veronica Kennedy:
Cecile Chevreau
Richard Kennedy, her husband:
Richard Hurndall
Bob Hughes a builder:
Ronald Baddiley
Christopher Kennedy:
Glen Grant
Smithy:
Colin Gordon
Mary Smith, his wife:
Molly Rankin
Mr Bellington:
Geoffrey Wincott
Colonel Porter:
Richard Williams
Managing Director of Messrs Ormon and Partners:
James Thomason

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
8 — ' The Return of Ulysses '
At the piano, Helen Henschel
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
Music Room
A series of monthly talks edited and introduced by David GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL
(1685-1759)
Three programmes by Helen Henschel with musical illustrations
1—' With trumpets also and shawms '
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
May Jenkin
Music By:
H. Fraser-Simson
Piano:
Helen Henschel
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Introduced By:
David George Frederic Handel
Unknown:
Helen Henschel
Mr Badger:
Richard George
The Water Rat:
Frank Duncan
The Mole:
Richard Goolden
Mr Toad:
Norman Shelley
Chief Weasel:
Peter Claughton
The Storyteller:
Mary O'Farrell

A series of programmes, devised and introduced by Julian Budden , tracing the development of this famous institution from its origin in Victorian times
7-Promenade Concerts
The War Years (1914-1918)
Dr. Ian Whyte conducts
The BBC Scottish Orchestra (Leader, Mr. J. Mouland Begbie ) with Miss Joyce Barker (soprano) and Miss Valerie Tryon (piano)
La Brabanconne
(National Anthem of Belgium)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Budden
Unknown:
Dr. Ian Whyte
Leader:
Mr. J. Mouland Begbie
Soprano:
Miss Joyce Barker
Piano:
Miss Valerie Tryon

From the novel by James Hanley
Radio script and production by Donald McWhinnie
Cast m order of speaking: with Sheila Moloney and Anne Padwick

Contributors

Novel By:
James Hanley
Production By:
Donald McWhinnie
Unknown:
Sheila Moloney
Unknown:
Anne Padwick
Doctor:
Keith Williams
Inspector Hughes:
Douglas Storm
Grace Helling:
Sheila Brennan
Police Constable Turner:
Anthony Viccars
Mrs Gurner:
Sylvia Coleridge
Pentony, a police surgeon:
Harold Reese
Felix Levine:
Michael Bryant
A Soldier:
Jon Rollason
An Officer:
Keith Williams
Mrs Helling, Grace's mother:
Mary O'Farrell
Mr Helling, her father:
Brian O'Higgins
Father Copley:
Jon Rollason
Sister Agnes:
Eva Stuart
Sister Teresa:
Sulwen Morgan
Hubbs:
Keith Williams
Wladek:
Harold Reese
A Passer-by:
Jon Rollason
Porter:
Harold Reese

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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