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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
How Do You Manage ?: a £ 15-a-week wife compares her daily budget with someone having more children and less money
Joyce Grenfell in Australia
What Does It Feel Like to be a Refugee ?: Patricia Brent tries to find out
Joyce Dunsheath relates more of her experiences climbing in the Caucasus as a ' Guest of the Soviets '

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Patricia Brent
Unknown:
Joyce Dunsheath

A request programme of records
Overture, Manfred (Schumann):
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Romance No. 2, in F (Beethoven):
Johanna Martzy (violin), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki
Songs of Mozart: sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), with Walter Gieseking (piano)
Concerto for double string orchestra
(Tippett): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Violin:
Johanna Martzy
Conducted By:
Paul Kletzki
Sung By:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Piano:
Walter Gieseking
Conducted By:
Walter Goehr

Grasshoppers
Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight
DAVID RAGGE and JOHN BURTON discuss grasshoppers and their close relatives the bush crickets, and introduce new recordings of their normal and courtship songs.
Listeners are taken to Kent in search of grasshoppers : to the North Downs for chalk-loving species and to Plumstead Marshes for the great green grasshopper.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

An essay by Henry Scott Holland
Reader, Charles E. Stidwill
The author, a canon of St. Paul's and Oxford professor who died in 1918, dreamed that the haunting magic of Yeats's lines held a test by which life was to be proved. What would happen if they were abruptly proclaimed at a stuffy committee meeting, at comfortable Matins, in the Mansion House, at the Kaffir Market, a St. James's club, a Hyde Park drawing-room?

Contributors

Reader:
Henry Scott Holland
Reader:
Charles E. Stidwill

For Children of Most Ages
' The Song of the Minster '
A story by William Canton told by David
5.10 For Older Children
'The Great Bear '
A play about
Dr. Samuel Johnson of Lichfield by David Scott Daniell
Produced by Graham Gauld

Contributors

Story By:
William Canton
Unknown:
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Samuel Johnson as a boy:
E ,barry
Samuel Johnson, a man:
Cyril Shaps
Mrs Johnson, his mother:
Kay Hudson
Michael Johnson, his father:
Geoffrey Lewis
Edmund Hector:
D English
David Garrick:
Peter Augustine
Sir Joshua Reynolds:
Eric Skelding
Dame Oliver:
Margaret Clarke
Adams:
Arnold Peters
Nicky:
J- Nyasa
Carrier:
James Holliday
Flunkey:
Denis Folwell
Servant:
Chris Gittins
Storyteller:
Charles E Stidwill

Appeal on behalf of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, by Sir Michael Red grave, C.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Sir Michael Redgrave, [address removed]
This is the diamond jubilee year of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, whose work has benefited almost four million serving and ex-Service men and women. In the Lord Roberts Workshops, men of three wars with an average disability of sixty per cent are trained and employed to produce furniture of all kinds, bedding, basket-work, and brushes, while the more severely disabled are taught clock assembly and other light industries.
The Society also has other centres, for the aged. the disabled, and the convalescent. Funds are urgently needed to carry on and expand this work.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Michael Red

A gallery of portraits in close-up
Lotte Lehmann
The great opera and lieder singer, who gave up singing in 1951 and made a new career as a teacher, talks about her life and work to
Irene Slade
The conversation was recorded in Madame Lehmann's apartment during her recent visit to London.
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Lotte Lehmann
Unknown:
Irene Slade

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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