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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
E. Arnot Robertson sends her last airmail letter from the Far East.
Visit to an Artist: John Bratby, A.R.A., talks in his own home.
Living on Credit?: some glances at home budgeting in 1960
A Book that Seized Me: Pamela Frankau on "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Reporter:
E. Arnot Robertson
Artist:
John Bratby
Reporter:
Pamela Frankau
Author (A Tale of Two Cities):
Charles Dickens

A series of Lenten Services on the Theme of Repentance
3-The Repentance of the Individual
from St. Mary's Roman Catholic College, Strawberry Hill , Twickenham. Conducted by Monsignor R. L. Smith, Ph.D., assisted by Father J.J.Twomey , C.M.
Praise to the Lord (St. Basil Hymnal
62)
Address: The Justice of God
Psalm 60 (Gelineau)
Scripture Reading from Isaias 1 and 53 Address: The Suffering Christ Adoramus te, Christe (Asola)
Address: The Goodness of God God. of thy pity (W.H. 32)
Our Father; Hail Mary; I confess;
Act of Contrition
Blessing
God of mercy and compassion (W.H.
221)
Organist and Director of Music,
John P.Rush
Assistant organist, Anthony Baldwin

Contributors

Unknown:
Strawberry Hill
Conducted By:
Monsignor R. L. Smith, Ph.D.,
Assisted By:
Father J.J.Twomey
Unknown:
John P.Rush
Organist:
Anthony Baldwin

A request programme of records
Concerto for oboe and strings (Pergolesi),: Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), and the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Piano Sonata No. 31, in A flat, Op.
110 (Beethoven),: Claudio Arrau (piano)
Tragic Overture (Brahms): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Otto Klemperer

Contributors

Oboe:
Evelyn Rothwell
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

in Northern Ireland
Edited and introduced by Professor Estyn Evans from Belfast
REG PARKER talks about the peat bogs so typical of the Ulster landscape
Douglas DEANE introduces the voices of the three Irish deer and discusses their status in Northern Ireland
VIVIAN Gotto outlines his work at Strangford Lough on sea squirts
ARNOLD BENINGTON presents a new series of recordings of the vocabulary of the long-eared owl-the commonest owl in Ireland
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
Professor Estyn Evans
Talks:
Reg Parker
Introduces:
Douglas Deane
Unknown:
Vivian Gotto
Unknown:
Arnold Benington
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

Sunday At Five
In the Steps of St. Paul
Nineteen hundred years ago St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta. In this centenary year David Davis and David Lloyd James read extracts from H. V. Morton 's book, which vividly describes St. Paul's life and travels.
I-A Journey to Damascus
See Junior Radio Times
6.20 The Trumpet-Major '
A tale of Wessex by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised in six episodes by John Keir Cross
2 — ' How a sailor returned from sea '
Other parts played by Edgar Harrison and Clive Batchelor
Storyteller, Harold Reese
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
David Lloyd James
Unknown:
H. V. Morton
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Played By:
Edgar Harrison
Played By:
Clive Batchelor
Unknown:
Harold Reese
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
John Loveday:
John Drake
Mrs Garland:
Ruby Luscombe
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
Bob Loveday:
John Bennett
Matilda Johnson:
June Barrie
Squire Derriman:
George Holloway
Festus Derriman:
Hugh David

Written and compiled by Leslie Baily
First Year of Peace
The Nuremberg Trials; the Victory March; the Iron Curtain descends; the Bikini Atom Bomb; ITMA; the Squatters.
with the voices of: King George VI, Earl Attlee, Lord Birkett, Lord Kilmuir (Sir David Maxwell-Fyffe), Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin, Jan Masaryk, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C., Bernard Baruch, Bernard Shaw, Tommy Handley, Bing Crosby, Lt.-Commander Peter Scott, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, Miss Blanche Patch, Cecil Trouncer
with Gordon Davies, Geoffrey Lewis, Dudley Rolph, Frank Phillips
Pages turned by Freddy Grisewood and Desmond Carrington
Production by Vernon Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
Sir Winston Churchill
Unknown:
Ernest Bevin
Unknown:
Jan Masaryk
Unknown:
Leonard Cheshire
Unknown:
Bernard Baruch
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Tommy Handley
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Peter Scott
Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Unknown:
Cecil Trouncer
Unknown:
Gordon Davies.
Unknown:
Geoffrev Lewis
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph
Unknown:
Frank Phillips
Turned By:
Freddy Grisewood
Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Production By:
Vernon Harris

Musica da Camera: Harold Clarke (flute) Sidney Fell (clarinet) Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)
Hubert Dawkes (piano)
Recording from a concert at the Inverness Musical Society in the Arts Centre, Farraline Park, Inverness, on February 16

Contributors

Flute:
Harold Clarke
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Piano:
Hubert Dawkes

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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