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Derek Hammond-Stroud
(baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)

She hath an eye - Geoffrey Bush
The roadside fire - Vaughan Williams
Young love lies sleeping - Somervell
It was a lover - Gerald Finzi
O waly, waly - trad., arr. Britten
Mr. Belloc's fancy - Warlock

Contributors

Baritone:
Derek Hammond-Stroud
Piano:
Ernest Lush

John Lehmann presents
' James Steerforth ' from ' David Copperfield ' by Charles Dickens
Steerforth played by Frank Duncan
Also taking part:
Denise Bryer. Richard George
John Glyn-Jones . Richard Hurndall
Lockwopd West. Marjorie Westbury Production by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lehmann
Unknown:
James Steerforth
Unknown:
David Copperfield
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Played By:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Denise Bryer.
Unknown:
Richard George
Unknown:
John Glyn-Jones
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Production By:
Rayner Heppenstall

Regional Variations (4)

Farming and fishing news

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Farmer

BBC Home Service West

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

An agricultural weekly
Introduced by Clifford Selly
Dr. W. P. BLOUNT talks to Dr. F. H. KRATZER , Professor of Poultry Nutrition at Davis University. California, and his colleague Dr. PRAN VORRA about some of the latest developments in poultry feeding.
J. W. MURRAY and BRYAN PLATT discuss the likely agricultural economic changes in the nineteen* sixties
Produced by John Greenslade

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clifford Selly
Talks:
Dr. W. P. Blount
Unknown:
Dr. F. H. Kratzer
Unknown:
Dr. Pran Vorra
Unknown:
J. W. Murray
Unknown:
Bryan Platt
Produced By:
John Greenslade

A sort of radio show with Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden , Bill Pertwee
Patricia Lancaster
The Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor. Paul Fenoulhet
Eric Merriman and Barry Took wrote the script and Edwin Braden the incidental music
Produced by Jacques Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Patricia Lancaster
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Conductor:
Eric Merriman
Conductor:
Barry Took
Produced By:
Jacques Brown

Regional Variations (2)

Very Much at Home: records

BBC Home Service West

A Docker
MARK ABRAMS and FRANK BYERS talk to JAMES MAYES , who works in the docks in Poplar and is himself the son of a docker. He started his working life as a bricklayer, but since the war has given up the building trade and gone back into the London Docks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Abrams
Unknown:
Frank Byers
Unknown:
James Mayes

Overture, Semiramide (Rossini):
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Mario Rossi
Violin Concerto in D (Brahms):
Yehudi Menuhin (violin), with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Ballet music. Otello (Verdi): Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Lehmann on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Mario Rossi
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Unknown:
Rudolf Kempe
Unknown:
Fritz Lehmann

by Virginia Hewett
Cast in order of speaking:
Drusilla Phelps is happily married to a handsome and charming Naval Officer until a succession of circumstances leads her to question her husband's fidelity. ' Mr. Summers' provides a startling solution to her jealous doubts.

Contributors

Unknown:
Virginia Hewett
Drusilla Phelps:
Virginia Hewett
David, her husband:
Derek Smith
Caroline, her daughter:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Pamela Payne:
Cecile Chevreau
Mrs Turner:
Freda Dowie
Stephen:
John Rye
Mr Summers:
David Bird

by Pauline Macaulay
Cast in order of speaking:
A conversation piece between three people stuck in a lift after working hours : an office boy, one of the bosses, and an unsuccessful applicant for a job.
Plays produced by Norman Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline MacAulay
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Miss James:
Eva Stuart
Mr. Soames:
Edgar Norfolk
Man:
James Thomason
Boy:
John Rye
Parker:
Charles Simon

From Lancaster Priory
Versicles and Responses (Ferial) Psalms 69 and 70 First Lesson: Micah 6. vv. 1-8 Magnificat (Brewer in D)
Second Lesson: Galatians 3, vv. 1-14 Nunc dimittis (Breicer in D) Creed
Lesser Litany Collects
Expectans, expectavi (Charles Wood) Prayers
Firmly I believe and truly (A. and M.
Rev. 186)
Organist, Henry Walmsley

Contributors

Organist:
Henry Walmsley

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
A Septuagenarian and her Cars: Dorothy Hann describes various forms of transport
Cinderella: Grace Stuart goes to the pantomime and is moved to express some surprising thoughts on the subject
Presented by Douglas Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Hann
Unknown:
Grace Stuart
Presented By:
Douglas Smith

Regional Variations (3)

Children's Hour. Christmas Party competition results

BBC Home Service North

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

For Children of Most Ages
' With Christmas Greetings from ...
W. R. Dalzell gives the results of the painting and drawing competition for a Christmas card, which he set on December 9, 1959
5.15 ' The Websters of Barrowdale by Alick Hayes
1-' Lady of Spain '
Production by Herbert Smith
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Four talks by the Rev. R. T. Brooks
' What do you mean by ... ? 2—' Grace '

Contributors

Unknown:
W. R. Dalzell
Unknown:
Alick Hayes
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Unknown:
Rev. R. T. Brooks
Mrs Mather:
Sybil Holroyd
Roger:
Randolph Stubington
Policeman:
Tom Harrison
Andrea:
Karal Gardner
Mr Webster:
Alick Hayes
Jock:
Paul Webster
Mrs Davies:
Mildred Dyson
Mrs Webster:
Madeleine Vacher
Mr Mayhew:
John Broadbent
Lionel Banks:
Brian Trueman
Mr Gregson:
Ronald Scales
Helen:
Helen Fraser

Regional Variations (2)

Signpost from the South-West Midlands

BBC Home Service Midland

Country Ceili from
Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh
John Murphy's Ceili Band
Songs by Una O'Callaghan
David Hammond with his guitar
Master of Ceremonies. Jack Sloane
Produced by Sam Denton

Contributors

Songs By:
Una O'Callaghan
Songs By:
David Hammond
Unknown:
Jack Sloane
Produced By:
Sam Denton

London v. West
ROUND 2
London:
Denis Brogan , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
West:
Alan Gibson , Vincent Waite
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Arranged by Robert Gladwell

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Vincent Waite
Unknown:
Gilbert Harding
Arranged By:
Robert Gladwell

' Camberwell, my native place, was joined to Deptford and Greenwich by a line of horse trams: and what better environment could a boy want than those three places steeped in history.'
Frederick Willis recalls some more memories of London sixty years ago

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Willis

Regional Variations (2)

That Reminds Me: the Rev. Basil Maine recalls his career, with records

BBC Home Service Midland

An impression in language and music of the deadly havoc that can be worked by bushfires in Australia
Music composed by George English
Written and produced by Ivan Smith in the studios of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
These huge fires occur every year. The worst fire on record killed seventy-one humans and countless thousands of trees and animals. This programme tells of how one of these animals, a wombat, met his death.

Contributors

Composed By:
George English
Produced By:
Ivan Smith

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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