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WILFRID THOMAS flew round the world recently and landed in fifteen countries on the way. In the intervals between unfastening and refastening his safety-belt he collected recordings of the music that he found. Today he reports on Australia and Fiji.
Produced by Denys Gueroult

Contributors

Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

Regional Variations (4)

Cricket: Yorkshire v. Glamorgan: Lancashire v. Leicestershire

BBC Home Service North

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

As North

BBC Home Service Welsh

Hampshire v. Surrey
Middlesex v. Gloucestershire
Second day
Reports by John Arlott from the County Ground, Southampton, and Rex Alston from Lord's

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Rex Alston

A sort of radio show written by Eric Merriman with Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden
Bill Pertwee , Pat Lancaster
The Fraser Hayes Four
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor. Paul Fenoulhet
Incidental music by Edwin Braden
Produced by Jacques Brown
(The recorded broadcast of May 6 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Pat Lancaster
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Music By:
Edwin Braden
Produced By:
Jacques Brown

Regional Variations (4)

What's On? Coming events

BBC Home Service Midland

The Week Ahead. Interlude

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Week Ahead. Interlude

BBC Home Service North

(1867-1953) by James Pope-Hennessy
Selections from the twenty episodes arranged for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced by Audrey Cameron
(: a new production of the broadcast on February 11)
Queen Mary had found the opening of her husband's reign nerve-racking, and the outbreak of the first world war, four years after King George's accession, seemed a dark omen. But after 1918 came a quiet period, during which Queen Mary became increasingly interested in the study and collection of antique furniture. The Princess Royal had married Lord Lascelles, and Albert, Duke of York, had taken Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as his bride. But the eldest Prince, known to his family as David, remained unmarried. Sandringham superseded York Cottage as the Royal Family's country residence.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Pope-Hennessy
Broadcasting By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Radio: John Barber
Book: Richard Mayne
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Roger Manvell

Contributors

Conducted By:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
John Barber
Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Robert Furneaux Jordan
Unknown:
Roger Manvell

For Children of Most Ages
Country Dance Party with boys and girls from Weston-super-Mare and music from
The Moonrakers with Nibs Matthews as caller
Folk songs from Lorna Spriggs accompanied on the guitar by Michael Watson and Bernard Fishwick as host and storyteller
Presented by Brigid Snow
5.30 For Older Children
' Here Lived ... *
C. Gordon Glover visits the homes of six famous men whose names live on in their writings
5-NO. 48 DOUGHTY STREET
The home, from 1837 to 1839, of Charles Dickens

Contributors

Unknown:
Nibs Matthews
Unknown:
Lorna Spriggs
Unknown:
Michael Watson
Unknown:
Bernard Fishwick
Presented By:
Brigid Snow
Unknown:
C. Gordon Glover
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Regional Variations (7)

News. sport

BBC Home Service Midland

News, sport.

BBC Home Service Welsh

News. Today's Sport

BBC Home Service West

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News

BBC Home Service North

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Local news and London Stock Market report
6.30 Today's Sport
6.40 Town and Country
A magazine for listeners in London and the counties of the South-East

Regional Variations (2)

' The Viking Cathedral ': story of St. Magnus Cathedral. Kirkwall

BBC Home Service Scottish

c A picture of life at Aylesford from the point of view of those who live and work there and those who only visit
Compiled by WALTER SCHWARZ during several weekend visits Produced by Anthony Thwaite
Thirteen years ago the Carmelite friars returned to their medieval priory at Aylesford, Kent, after an absence of 450 years. The half-ruined buildings were bought back and restored with the aid of what the Prior, Father Malachy Lynch, considers a series of financial miracles. Today the priory is not only a centre of pilgrimage: it also receives weekend guests of all faiths and none.

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Schwarz
Produced By:
Anthony Thwaite

50th edition
In four and a half years Radio Link has sought to illuminate acute national and international problems by making possible, across oceans and continents, an exchange of views between those concerned with them.
Crises in the Middle and Far East, in Berlin, in Little Rock, and over the U2; tensions in NATO and the Commonwealth, and anti-semitism in Germany are some of the issues that have been reflected in ways recalled and illustrated by ROBERT McKENZIE

Contributors

Illustrated By:
Robert McKenzie

Regional Variations (3)

Gaelic talk: tribute to John MacArthur. who established the wool industry in Australia

BBC Home Service Scottish

Holiday Air Mail: BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra plays request tunes from Portrush

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A gallery of portraits in close-up
Bob Owen. Croesor
Book-collector, lecturer self-taught scholar
,with the recorded voices of PROFESSOR P. M. S. Blackett
Sir THOMAS PARRY-WILLIAMS
DR. Thomas Richards
Introduced by Dyfnallt Morgan
Seventy-five-year-old Robert Owen has lived throughout his life in Croesor, a remote hamlet in the hills behind Portmadoc. He left elementary school to become, for thirty years, a clerk in the local quarry, during which time he built up a private library of some 47,000 items. He has now become a legend, an 'exuberant lecturer known as Bob Owen , Croesor.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Owen.
Unknown:
Professor P. M. S. Blackett
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Parry-Williams
Unknown:
Dr. Thomas Richards
Introduced By:
Dyfnallt Morgan
Unknown:
Robert Owen
Unknown:
Bob Owen

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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