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Roy Clark leads an exchange of talk about the sea and ships between
Rear-Admiral A. H. Taylor
C.B., O.B.E. authority on Nelson in Norfolk
Henry ' Shrimp ' Davies coxswain of Cromer No. 1 lifeboat
George Naish of the National Maritime Museum
Fred Grice old Lowestoft smacksman with songs from Edgar Samuel
Arranged and introduced by Roy Clark
Produced by David Bryson
(The recorded broadcast of October 28. 1958, in the Midland Home Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Clark
Unknown:
Admiral A. H. Taylor
Unknown:
George Naish
Unknown:
Edgar Samuel
Introduced By:
Roy Clark
Produced By:
David Bryson

A gallery of portraits in close-up
A Self-Made Man: Eric Moonman
' A self-made man generally denotes someone who has made a fortune. Eric Moonman isn't that sort of person at all. He hasn't got much money. But what he has got is a very highly defined purpose in life.'
Script and narration by Edward Ward
Produced by Graham Jackson
(The recorded broadcast of August 10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Moonman
Unknown:
Eric Moonman
Produced By:
Graham Jackson

* Swallows and Amazons' by Arthur Ransome
Read by Derek McCulloch
(Uncle Mac)
11 (and last)— 'The White Flag'
5.15 For Older Children
' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ' by C. S. Lewis adapted as a serial in six parts by Lance Sieveking
1—' Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe '
Produced by David Davis
' They looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe ... there was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Ransome
Read By:
Derek McCulloch
Unknown:
C. S. Lewis
Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Produced By:
David Davis
Peter:
Glyn Dearman
Susan:
Carol Marsh
Edmund:
Jean England
Lucy:
Ann Totten
Kranko:
Preston Lockwood
Kranko:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Macready:
Ella Milne
The White Witch:
Jill Balcoii

Pauline Brockless (soprano)
Nancy Thomas (mezzo-soprano)
John Mitchinson (tenor)
David Ward (bass)
BBC Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London

Contributors

Soprano:
Pauline Brockless
Mezzo-Soprano:
Nancy Thomas
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Bass:
David Ward
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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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