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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick
[Starring] Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised for radio by:
Michael Hardwick
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson:
Norman Shelley
Sir James Damery:
John Humphry
Baron Gruner:
John G. Heller
Shinwell Johnson:
Anthony Viccars
Kitty Winter:
Eva Stuart
Newsvendor:
Nicholas Edmett

from St. John's College
Cambridge
Sentence, Confession, and Absolution Preces (Tomkins, Peterhouse version) Psalms 41, 42, 43
First Lesson: Wisdom 9
Magnificat (Tomkins, Fifth Service) Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3
Nunc dimittis (Tomkins, Fifth Service)
Creed and Lesser Litany
The Lord's Prayer (Farmer)
Responses (Tomkins, Peterhouse version)
Collects
Anthem: Loquebantur variis linguis
(Palestrina)
Prayers
Our blest Redeemer (St. John's College
Hymn Book)
Organist and choirmaster,
George Guest
Organ student, Peter White

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White

For Older Children
' The Macdonnell of Ulster
A serial play in six episodes by Charles Witherspoon and James Boyce
5—' Plot and Counterplot'
Other parts played by Maurie Taylor
Terence Cromcy. and Sidney Shaw
Produced by Cicely Mathews
5.30 Talking in School
A series of discussion programmes from schools in Northern Ireland
Carolan Girls' Grammar School
Chairman, Jack McGeagh
Guest speaker, J. U. Stewart
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
God's World and Ours
Five talks by Arnold S. Aldis
2-' The youth who defied a dictator '

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Unknown:
James Boyce
Played By:
Maurie Taylor
Played By:
Terence CromcY.
Played By:
Sidney Shaw
Produced By:
Cicely Mathews
Unknown:
Jack McGeagh
Unknown:
J. U. Stewart
Unknown:
Arnold S. Aldis
Ludar Macdonnell:
Robin Graham
Humphrey Dexter:
Norman Stevenson
Rose O'Neill:
Kathleen O'Donnell
Meg:
Mina Dornan
Captain Merriman:
James Boyce
Sergeant Markham:
James Parr
Poet:
Alfred Arnold
Fergus Magowan:
John F Tyrone
Sir John Perrot:
Robert Huntley

(Fourth Year)
A weekly contest between 143 choirs from all over the United Kingdom
The eighth of ten programmes in the national competition
MALE VOICE CHOIRS:
Ford Male Voice Choir
Conductor, Ronald Hart
Glasgow Philharmonic Choir
Conductor, John Rankin
LADIES' CHOIRS:
Dumbarton Ladies' Choir
Conductor, George McVicar
Stoke-on-Trent Bedford Singers
Conductor, May Walley
Introduced by Leslie Regan
Produced by Charles Beardsall
The finalists in each class will take part in a nation-wide broadcast on Tuesday, June 28.

Contributors

Conductor:
Ronald Hart
Conductor:
John Rankin
Conductor:
George McVicar
Conductor:
May Walley
Introduced By:
Leslie Regan
Produced By:
Charles Beardsall

A programme of news and comment on recent events in the field of science and technology
Introduced by Archie Clow
The programme includes a report from
KENNETH WILLIAMSOM of the British Trust for Ornithology on his recent visit to St. Kilda
The human population of this remote Atlantic island was evacuated thirty years ago and Kenneth Williamson describes some of the ecological changes that have taken place since.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Archie Clow

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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