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Charles West (baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Purcell Hark ' How all things with one sound rejoice
Here let my life
There's not a swain of the plain
Since from my dear Astraea's sight
Moeran
Strings in the earth and air The merry green wood Bright cap
Brahms Minnelied
Sonntag Stiindchen , Op. 106 No. 1

Contributors

Piano:
Purcell Hark
Unknown:
Brahms Minnelied
Unknown:
Sonntag Stiindchen

From the Dome, Brighton
Anona Winn, Joy Adamson
Jack Train , and Kenneth Horne ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
Produced by C. F. Meehan

Contributors

Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Gilbert Harding
Produced By:
C. F. Meehan

by Elizabeth Sandbrook
Produced by John Tydeman
More than a hundred years ago, when all Ireland was gripped by the worst potato famine in its history, blind Peadar O'Meara was faced with two alternatives—starvation or poaching game from his wealthy landlords.....

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Sandbrook
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Peadar O'Meara:
Denys Hawthorn
Mary Kate O'Meara:
Diana Olsson
Sean O'Meara:
Nigel Anthony
Gran:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
The Bailiff:
Tom Watson

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick
Produced by Martyn C. Webster

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson:
Norman Shelley
Joseph Harrison:
Robert Corder
Percy Phelps:
Hamilton Dyce
Lord Holdhurst:
George Hagan
Tangey:
Charles Simon
Ada Tangey:
Freda Dowie
Detective Forbes:
Kenneth Dight
Mrs Tangey:
June Tobin
Annie Harrison:
Cécile Chevreau
Mrs Hudson:
Kathleen Helme

sung by the Wellington Festival Choir, from Wellington Parish Church, Somerset
0 Loving Saviour (Brian Head) Sentence: Confession: Absolution The Lord's Prayer
Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 89
First Lesson: 1 Kings 1, vv. 32-63 Magnificat (Gray in F minor)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 12, v.
27, to 13, v. 13
Nunc dimittis (Gray in F minor) Creed; Lesser Litany; Collects
Anthem: Faire is the Heaven (Harris) Prayers; The Grace
Organist, Gerald Hendrie
Choirmaster, Christopher Bishop

Contributors

Organist:
Gerald Hendrie

For Older Children
' Backstage at the Festival'
A play by Sally Martin
Produced by Ian Wishart
See Junior Radio Times
5.40 Folk music sung and played by the Joe Gordon Folk Four
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Making the Most of Life
Five talks by the Rev. Deryck Collingwood
3—The whistling laundryman

Contributors

Play By:
Sally Martin
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Unknown:
Rev. Deryck Collingwood
Anne:
Sheila Donald
Neil, her brother:
Colin MacKay
Mum:
Jean Faulds
Joyce their cousin from London:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Norma, an actress:
June Shields
Stage manager:
James Grant
Assistant stage manager:
Anne MacDonald
Producer:
Leonard Maguire
Scenic artist:
Ronald Honeycombe
Joan leading lady:
Doris McLatchie

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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