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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Hazel Craig describes a transformation from gigiamps to niicro-corneal lenses
Nuns, Guns, and Musicals: Gordon Gow talks to Fred Zinnemann , film director
E. Arnot Robertson sends news from the Far East
A Book that Seized Me: Siriol Hugh-Jones talks about The
Lost Domain ' (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain Fournier

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Hazel Craig
Talks:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Fred Zinnemann
Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
Alain Fournier

A request programme of records
Overture. Portsmouth Point (Walton):
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
The Maiden and the Nightingale
(Goyescasi (Granados): played by Artur Rubinstein (piano)
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
(Castelnnovo-Tedesco) : played by Andres Segovia (guitar) and the New London Orchestra, conducted by Alec Sherman
Evocacion: El Albaicin (Iberia)
(Albenlz, orch. Arbds): Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Alaulfo Argenta

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Piano:
Artur Rubinstein
Guitar:
Andres Segovia
Conducted By:
Alec Sherman
Unknown:
El Albaicin
Conducted By:
Alaulfo Argenta

Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio: H. A. L. Craig
Book: Walter Allen
Art: Andrew Forge

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Gerald Barry
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Andrew Forge

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Ernest Neal and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hobbis
Unknown:
Ernest Neal
Question-Master:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Jack Longland
Produced By:
Bill Coysh

For Children of Most Ages
Sunday At Five
Talking Point
Anthony Allen , Michael Linde-mere , Anthony Nunn , and Jeremy Miller talk over some of the things that puzzle them with the Venerable D. H. Booth , Archdeacon of Lewes
5.20 For Older Children
' The Trumpet Major '
A tale of Wessex by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised in six episodes by John Keir Cross
1—' How the Dragoons came to Overcombe Down '
Other voices played by Clive Batchelor and members of the cast
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Allen
Unknown:
Michael Linde-Mere
Unknown:
Anthony Nunn
Unknown:
Jeremy Miller
Unknown:
D. H. Booth
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Played By:
Clive Batchelor
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
The Storyteller:
Harold Reese
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
Mrs Garland:
Ruby Luscombe
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
John Loveday:
John Drake
Festus Derriman:
Hugh David
Old Squire Derriman:
George Holloway
Corporal Tullidge:
Norman Kendall
Anthony Cripplestraw:
Stephen Jack
Sergeant Stannard:
Bernard Fishwick

A radio portrait of Rossini
Written by Colin Shaw
Victoria Elliott (soprano)
Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano)
Peter Glossop (baritone)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Narrator. Andrew Faulds with David Enders Donald Bisset
John Franklyn Robbins
Norman Partriege , Marah Stohl
Followed by a short programme of music by Rossini
Produced by Colin Shaw and Arthur Spencer in the BBC's North of England studios

Contributors

Written By:
Colin Shaw
Soprano:
Victoria Elliott
Mezzo-Soprano:
Patricia Kern
Baritone:
Peter Glossop
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Narrator:
Andrew Faulds
Unknown:
David Enders
Unknown:
Donald Bisset
Unknown:
John Franklyn Robbins
Unknown:
Norman Partriege
Unknown:
Marah Stohl
Produced By:
Colin Shaw
Produced By:
Arthur Spencer

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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