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A weekly magazine
Arranged and introduced by Bill Hartley
Are we to blame?: Roy McCarthy considers we get the designs we deserve
One of the family: The car as part of the household, by Clive Walker
After the holidays: Gerry Lush suggests ways of making good the ravages of the car's busiest fortnight
Produced by David Glencross

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Roy McCarthy
Unknown:
Clive Walker
Unknown:
Gerry Lush
Produced By:
David Glencross

by Laurie Wyman
A weekly and surely fictitious account of events in a naval detachment only loosely connected with the Senior Service.
Ronnie Barker , and Tenniel Evans
Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Wyman
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Tenniel Evans
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Lieut Murray, the No 1:
Stephen Murray
Chief Petty Ofticer Pertwee:
Jon Pertwee
Sub-Lieut Phillips:
Leslie Phillips
Commander Povey:
Richard Caldicot
Heather:
Heather Chasen
with assistance from:
Michael Bates,

' by Charles S. Thornton
Produced by Peggy Wells
The motor vessel Mendellex, homeward bound from a West-Indian cruise, has run aground on a reef on the south coast and has been abandoned. All the passengers have been landed safely but four members of the crew are missing. So, too, are thousands of pounds' worth of jewellery.....

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles S. Thornton
Produced By:
Peggy Wells
Announcer:
Norman Claridge
Murray:
Jon Rollason
Scott:
Julian Somers
Smith:
Malcolm Hayes

For the Younger Ones
* Mr. Peckew and Mr. Paygo'
Arnold Peters tells the fourth of five stories written for younger listeners by R. G. Walker
4 — ' Mr. Peckew Goes Flying'
5.15 For Older Children
Ocean Junction
The story of the Panama Canal told by Marvin Kane who also introduces recordings made recently with canal pilots and operators as they guided the liner Reina del Mar on her way to the west coast of South America
Produced' by Michael Barton

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Peters
Unknown:
R. G. Walker
Unknown:
Panama Canal
Told By:
Marvin Kane
Unknown:
Reina Del Mar
Produced By:
Michael Barton

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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