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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
How Perfect is Your Husband?: Michael Brooke challenges wives in England, Scotland, and Wales Furnishing and Decorating Your Home: advice on curtains from Adrienne Spanier
Joyce Grenfell records some thoughts from abroad
Two Weeks to Go: a discussion on the achievements of World
Refugee Year

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Michael Brooke
Unknown:
Adrienne Spanier
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell

Conducted by Sir John Summerson
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Laurence Kitchin
Book: C. V. Wedgwood
Repeated on Thursday at 3.45

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Edgar Anstey
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin

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

Symphony No. 9
Andante;
Landler Rondo : Burleske; Adagio played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
NoSl Goodwin writes on page 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Landler Rondo
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conductor:
Rudolf Schwarz
Unknown:
Nosl Goodwin

' Tom's Midnight Garden '
The book by Philippa Pearce
Adapted as a serial play in six parts by John Keir Cross
3—' Hatty '
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Book By:
Philippa Pearce
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
David Davis
The Storyteller:
Charles E Stidwill
Tom:
Jean England
Hatty:
Ann Totten
Uncle Alan:
Norman Shelley
Aunt Gwen:
Rachel Roberts
Abel:
Martin Starkie
Mrs Melbourne:
Joan Henley

Written and compiled by Leslie Baily

Death of King Edward VII; the first flight from London to Manchester; the golden age of Musical Comedy - "The Arcadians", "The Chocolate Soldier", "Our Miss Gibbs"; the Lords versus the People; the Post-Impressionists; Sherlock Holmes and "The Speckled Band"; the arrest of Doctor Crippen
with the voices of:
Lord Morrison of Lambeth, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Captain H.G. Kendall, Mr. Claude Grahame-White, Mr. L.R. Willdridge, Mr. Oliver Dyer
with Carleton Hobbs, Gordon Davies, Olive Gregg, John Cameron, Helen Clare, Clarence Wright, Anita Prynne, Oliver Burt, Leslie Perrins, Ronald Baddiley
Pages turned by Freddy Grisewood
Music arranged by Alan Paul
BBC Revue Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Alan Paul
Production by Vernon Harris

Leslie Baily writes on page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
King Edward Vii
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Captain H. G. Kendall
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs.
Unknown:
Gordon Davies
Unknown:
Olive Gregg
Unknown:
John Cameron
Unknown:
Helen Clare.
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Unknown:
Anita Prynne
Unknown:
Oliver Burt
Unknown:
Leslie Perrins
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Turned By:
Freddy Grisewood
Arranged By:
Alan Paul
Conducted By:
Alan Paul
Production By:
Vernon Harris
Unknown:
Leslie Baily

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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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