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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Two Generations: reflections on a changing way of life-engineering
(Continued in next column)
Muriel Dole talks about some recently published books
Blushing and Flushing: a doctor discusses the causes
The Joys of Living: discussed by Diana Graves , Laurie Lee , and Adrian Seligman

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Muriel Dole
Unknown:
Diana Graves
Unknown:
Laurie Lee
Unknown:
Adrian Seligman

Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones
Art: Andrew Forge
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio: Jacques Brunius

Contributors

Conducted By:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
Alan Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Andrew Forge
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius

Birds as Parents
Derek Goodwin and Kenneth Simmons discuss with James Fisher the problems of parental care in birds : feeding, brooding, and protection
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Goodwin
Unknown:
Kenneth Simmons
Unknown:
James Fisher
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, and places he visited.
3-Malta and Rome
5.20 For Older Children
'The Trumpet-Major '
A tale of Wessex by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised in six episodes by John Keir Cross
4 — ' How the mill folk fared when the alarm sounded '
Other parts played by Geoffrey Matthews. Edgar Harrison and Clive Batchelor
Storyteller, Harold Reese
Produced by Archie Campbell
The old miser, Squire Derriman, has shown Anne where his famous ' treasure box ' is hidden, terrified as he is that his braggart nephew Festus will try to steal it from him. Anne is reluctant to have such a secret to guard for she has troubles enough-Festus is her avowed enemy already, and she has quarrelled with the good Trumpet-Major. Then comes the worst news of all: the alarm-beacon has been fired and Napoleon's
,army has landed in Budmouth Bay!

Contributors

Played By:
Geoffrey Matthews.
Played By:
Edgar Harrison
Played By:
Clive Batchelor
Unknown:
Harold Reese
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Festus Derriman:
Hugh David
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
John Loveday:
John Drake
Bob Loveday:
John Bennett
Mrs Garland:
Ruby Luscombe
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
Anthony Cripplestraw:
Stephen Jack
Squire Derriman:
George Holloway

A public audience in Edinburgh questions
Abba Eban
President of the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rehovot. Israel; formerlv Israel Ambassador to the United States, 1950-59
IN TEL AVIV
Pierre Emmanuel poet and essayist '
IN PARIS
Dwight Macdonald staff writer with the New Yorker
IN NEW YORK and Eric Linklater novelist and playwright who is with John Armitage
IN EDINBURGH
Arranged by Norman Macdonald
Next programme in this series:
Sunday, May 1, from Reading

Contributors

Unknown:
Pierre Emmanuel
Unknown:
Dwight MacDonald
Unknown:
Eric Linklater
Unknown:
John Armitage
Arranged By:
Norman MacDonald

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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