Programme Index

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Regional Variations (4)

Interlude. I Ysgotion Cymru

BBC Home Service Welsh

Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

Signpost from the East Midlands*. Interlude

BBC Home Service Midland

A visit to the German
' Music Town ' by A. W. Rowe
Trossingen, near Stuttgart, is where most of the world's accordions and mouth organs are made. A. W. Rowe , an English schoolmaster, went there to see something of the ways in which children are taught music. He fell for the charm of this small South German town.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. W. Rowe
Unknown:
A. W. Rowe

Regional Variations (6)

The Northern Farmer

BBC Home Service North

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Farming and fishing news

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Farmer

BBC Home Service West

An agricultural weekly
JOSEPH EDWARDS .SC. , , Head of the Production Division of the Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales, reports on the Board's field trials on twinning as a source of more economic beef production
DAVID BEAL , Principal of the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture, talks about breeding from ewe lambs
News commentary by Bryan Platt
Chairman, The ' On Your Farm ' Vet

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Edwards .Sc.
Unknown:
David Beal
Commentary By:
Bryan Platt

Regional Variations (3)

Mary Morris, soprano; Andrew Brown, baritone

BBC Home Service Scottish

As Scottish

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Derek Walker
Other parts played by Sylvia Coleridge , Tobi Weinberg
Philip Cunningham , Harold Reese
John Hollis , Rolf Lefebvre
John Rye. Gabriel Woolf
Douglas Storm , George Hagan Derek Smith. Keith Williams
Production by William Glen-Doepel
A bank clerk is on his way to Stratford to see Twelfth Night. He falls asleep in the train and dreams what his life might have been if he had been born in Stratford.

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Walker
Played By:
Sylvia Coleridge
Played By:
Tobi Weinberg
Played By:
Philip Cunningham
Played By:
Harold Reese
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
John Rye.
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Douglas Storm
Unknown:
George Hagan
Unknown:
Derek Smith.
Unknown:
Keith Williams
Production By:
William Glen-Doepel
Paul Valentine Brush:
David March
Ticket Collector:
Ronald Baddiley
George:
David Spenser
Schoolmaster:
Keith Williams
Shakespeare's Ghost:
Rolf Lefebvre
Johnny Freeman:
John Scott
Bob:
Harold Reese
Miss Boot:
Sylvia Coleridge
Joe Frensham:
Douglas Storm
Galloway:
Ronald Baddiley
American:
Jon Rollason

from the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury
Preces (William Smith of Durham)
Psalms: 22 and 23
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 2
Magnificat (Orlando Gibbons - Short Service)
Second Lesson: St. Luke 22, vv. 54 to 71
Nunc dimittis (Orlando Gibbons - Short Service)
Creed, Suffrages, and Collects
Anthem: O quam gloriosum est regnum (Byrd)
Prayers
Who are these like stars appearing? (A. and M. 427)
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Sidney S. Campbell

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
Adventures at Sea: Captain Graham Randell describes his first voyage in steam in 1898. (BBC recording)
The Art of Recitation: Kathleen Nesbitt describes her introduction to miscellaneous poems when she first went to school
Presented by Douglas Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Randell
Unknown:
Kathleen Nesbitt
Presented By:
Douglas Smith

For Listeners of Most Ages
More Yarns of a Shellback
Douglas V. Duff comes to the studio to spin another series of yarns about the odd and exciting things that happen at sea
5.15 ' The Wild One '
A new serial play in six parts by Tudur Watkins
4—' Captain Twist'
Production by Ifan 0. Williams
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
' Looking at God's World'
Four talks by Clifford Othen
1-' The .heavens are telling'

Contributors

Unknown:
Tudur Watkins
Unknown:
Clifford Othen
Jonathan Lee:
Gwenyth Petty
Dai Tinker:
T H Evans
Mr Ambrose:
Emrys Cleaver
Captain Twist:
Howell Evans
Mrs Lee:
Olwen Brookes
Mr Jordan:
John Cazabon

Regional Variations (7)

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News, sport

BBC Home Service North

News, sport. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News. sport

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News

BBC Home Service Midland

Local news and London Stock Market report
6.30 Today's Sport
6.15 6.25 VHF: Rowridge
(92.9 Mc/s) for the South Coast:
Area news and weather summary

Regional Variations (3)

Signpost from the South-East Midlands

BBC Home Service Midland

Scottish Dance Music

BBC Home Service Scottish

Traditional music and songs from a square dance party in Dorset
Songs from Cyril Tawney
Callers,
Nibs Matthews and Pat Shaw
Music from
The Jolly Waggoners Band led by Nan Fleming-Williams
Master of Ceremonies,
Bernard Fishwick
Produced by Brian Patten
From the Village Hall. Maiden Newton

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Tawney
Unknown:
Nibs Matthews
Unknown:
Pat Shaw
Unknown:
Nan Fleming-Williams
Unknown:
Bernard Fishwick
Produced By:
Brian Patten

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Midlands
ROUND 2
London:
Cedric Cliffe , Denis Brogan
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Midlands :
Thomas Bodkin , H. E. Howard
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Arranged by Robert Gladwell

Contributors

Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Lionel Hale Midlands
Unknown:
Thomas Bodkin
Unknown:
H. E. Howard
Unknown:
Gilbert Harding
Arranged By:
Robert Gladwell

Regional Variations (2)

The Godsend

BBC Home Service Scottish

A programme of news and comment on recent events in the field of science and technology
Introduced by Archie Clow
The programme includes a note by W. E. SWINTON Ph.D., F.R.S.E. ,, of the British Museum (Natural History), on the discovery of a new specimen of the famous fossil bird, Archaeopteryx. This is only the third example known to geologists.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Archie Clow
Unknown:
W. E. Swinton Ph.D., F.R.S.E.

Regional Variations (2)

Motets by Bach and Brahms: the Midland Singers

BBC Home Service Midland

by the Marquess of Reading
G.C.M.G., Q.C.
The Tribunals and Enquiries Act of 1958 established the Council on Tribunals, of which Lord Reading was appointed Chairman. In his talk Lord Reading describes how the Council is setting about its task and explains some of the things this ' watchdog ' can and cannot do.

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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