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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Alan Simpson and Ray Galton : two recent guests in Woman's Hour
Two Canadians discover Australia: Dorothy Curtis - Hare describes a four-month car journey from Sydney to Perth
Alan Melville concludes his account of his unstately homes
Dropping In: on the Romantic Novelists' Association

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Alan Simpson
Introduced By:
Ray Galton

A request programme of records
Suite Provençale (Milhaud): Concert
Arts Orchestra, conducted by the composer
The Housatonic at Stockbridge (Three
Places in New England) (Ives): Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Hanson
Excerpts from A Child of Our Time
(Tippett): Elsie Morison (soprano); Pamela Bowden (contralto); Richard Lewis (tenor): Richard Standen (bass); Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by John Pritchard

Contributors

Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Contralto:
Pamela Bowden
Tenor:
Richard Lewis
Tenor:
Richard Standen
Conducted By:
John Pritchard

Conducted by Sir John Summerson
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Jacques Brunius

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Alan Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Basil Taylor
Unknown:
Edgar Anstey
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius

A monthly series
Masterpieces of Bird Recording
Introduced by James Fisher with Ludwig Koch , Eric Simms
John Kirby , E. D. H. Johnson
Roger Perry
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Ludwig Koch
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
John Kirby
Unknown:
E. D. H. Johnson
Unknown:
Roger Perry
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

Sunday at Five
Children's Service
From Dalriada School, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim; conducted by the Headmaster, G. E. Gordon
Reading from the Holy Scripture, by the head boy
A gladsome hymn of praise we sing (Hymns of the Kingdom No. 1)
Talk
All that's good and great and true (Hymns of the Kingdom No. 9)
Talk
Prayers
The Lord's my Shepherd. I'll not want (Hymns of the Kingdom No. 168)
Conductor, Catherine Tomlmson
6.15 * Time and Time Again'
'Tom's Midnight Garden '
The book by Philippa Pearce adapted as a serial play
In six parts by John Keir Cross
2 - ' Footprints in the Dew '
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Conductor:
Catherine Tomlmson
Book By:
Philippa Pearce
Produced By:
David Davis
The Storyteller:
Charles B Stidwill
Tom:
Jean England
Hatty:
Ann Tot Ten
Uncle Alan:
Norman Shelley
Aunt Gwen:
Rachel Roberts
Abel:
Martin Starkie
James:
Glyn Dearman
Hubert:
William Simons

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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