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1938-1959
September 27, 1959, was the twenty-first birthday of the BBC European Service
This programme was made to celebrate this coming of age, recalling its birth in the Munich crisis, its fantastic growth during the war, and its complex and changing work today.
Narrator, EDWARD WARD
Edited and produced by David Woodward

Contributors

Narrator:
Edward Ward
Produced By:
David Woodward

The novel by Bill Knox, adapted for radio by Norman Edwards
[tarring] Noel Johnson, Peter Claughton and Duncan McIntyre

A murderer is trapped in a tunnel below an airport. This thriller depends for its excitement not on 'who dunnit' but on 'will he be caught?'

Contributors

Author:
Bill Knox
Adapted by:
Norman Edwards
Producer:
R.D. Smith
Mertoun:
Ronald Baddiley
P.C. Macrae:
Ronald Fraser
Chief Detective-Inspector Thane:
Peter Claughton
Police clerk:
Douglas Storm
Detective Inspector Moss:
Duncan McIntyre
David Renfield:
Noel Johnson
Jean Catta:
Betty Baskcomb
Danny O'Farrell:
Jim McLoughlin
Wheeler:
Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Copelin:
Joan Scott
Mrs Senior:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
John Dawkins:
Anthony Viccars
Mrs Dawkins:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Sergeant MacLean:
Gabriel Woolf
Mr Dawkins:
Philip Cunningham
Dr Catta:
Frederick Treves
Grosvenor:
John Cazabon
Mrs Grosvenor:
Hilda Schroder
Guard:
Jeffrey Segal
Sergeant:
John Hollis
Colonel Levenworth:
Malcolm Hayes
Group Captain Charles:
Alan Lawrence
Superintendent Wilkie:
George Hagan
McNeil:
Ronald Fraser
Blane:
Laidlaw Dalling
Other parts played by:
Joyce Carpenter
Other parts played by:
Betty Linton
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

in lighter vein played by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky and presenting
William Alwyn as guest composer conducting a group of his own compositions
Introduced by Anne Oldham Produced by Fredric Bayco

Contributors

Leader:
William Armon
Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Unknown:
William Alwyn
Introduced By:
Anne Oldham
Produced By:
Fredric Bayco

For Children of Most Ages presenting in Six Day Special
'Jim Starling by E. W. Hildick
Adapted as a serial for radio by Muriel Levy
1—' The Slasher'
Production by Herbert Smith
See Junior Radio Times
6.15 Viera with her guitar presents
Songs from Many Lands
5.30 For Older Children
Now Showing in London
A review by Eric Gillett of some of the new films and plays
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Starling
Unknown:
E. W. Hildick
Unknown:
Muriel Levy
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Review By:
Eric Gillett
Jim Starling:
Walter Baddeley
The Old Man:
Norman Partriege
Aunt Julie:
Doris Speed
P C Les Armstrong:
Brian Truetnan
Mr Pickwith (History):
Geoffrey Banks
Mr Chuffley, headmaster:
Bertram Parnaby
Terry Todd:
Terry Dean
' Nip ' Challons:
Norman Heyes
'Siggy:
Harry Emmett
Boys at Cement Street Secondary Modern School:
Colin Pearce,
Boys at Cement Street Secondary Modern School ,:
Peter Gittins
Boys at Cement Street Secondary Modern School:
Philip England

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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