Programme Index

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RHYTHM AND MELODY by Gladys Whitred
11.20 GEOGRAPHY
Urals. Script by Roy Mellor
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN
Die grosse Chance. Manuskript von Rolf Richards.
Hans Schwarz, Reporter der Frank furter Abendzeitung, wird nach Berlin geschickt, um liber die Filmfestspiele zu berichten. Dabei geschehen einige unvorhergesehene Dinge.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
Roy Mellor
Unknown:
Rolf Richards.
Unknown:
Hans Schwarz

ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH
' The Magic Bedknob': a serial story from the book by Mary Norton. Script by June Hodge 3:The Escape
2.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY
Germs and Men. 5: Germs in sewage
Script by James McCloy
2.40
STORIES FROM BRITISH HISTORY
An Elizabethan schoolboy
Script by Margaret J. Miller

Contributors

Book By:
Mary Norton.
Script By:
June Hodge
Script By:
James McCloy
Script By:
Margaret J. Miller

JUNIOR TIME: 5.0-5.30
A programme for the fives to eights The Adventures of Clara Chuff by Harry Harrison
' Worse Things Happen at Sea'
Produced by Michael Bowen
Presented by Brigid
5.30 SPEAKING OF SPAIN
A series of talks by John D. Stewart
6: The True Trafalgar
Guitar solos played by Norman Watson

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Harrison
Produced By:
Michael Bowen
Unknown:
John D. Stewart
Played By:
Norman Watson
Peter:
Peter Lynch
Pinkie:
Vanessa Hill
Mr Forty Fifty:
Hedley Goodall
Miss Clara Chuff:
Ann Codrington
Queen of the North:
Constance Chapman
Bill Trainferry:
Bernard Fishwick
First French Mayor:
Harry Carter
Umpteenth French Mayor:
Johnny Morris

A mystery
Who Killed
Menna Lorraine ? by JON MANCHIP WHITE with Kenneth Griffith , Peter Copley
Zena Walker and Lee Montague
Inspector Farley is summoned to a house in Hampstead, and he hears from an agitated Welsh girl the details of her sister's disappearance. Within a quarter of an hour, he unearths a murder and from then on more people begin to disappear.
Produced by Emyr Humphreys

Contributors

Unknown:
Menna Lorraine
Unknown:
Jon Manchip White
Unknown:
Kenneth Griffith
Unknown:
Peter Copley
Unknown:
Zena Walker
Unknown:
Lee Montague
Unknown:
Inspector Farley
Produced By:
Emyr Humphreys
Sergeant Priding:
Richard Hart
Miss Meredith:
Zena Walker
Inspector Farley:
Kenneth Griffith
Chief Inspector Gosney:
Peter Copley
Mrs Lukacs:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Sir Henry Tilley:
Clyde Pollitt
Stephen Cross:
Oscar Quitak
Rony Lorraine:
Lee Montague
Mr Hennessy:
John Humphry
Teresa:
Kathleen Helme
Mr Martin:
Christopher Burgess
Bell-boy:
Nigel Anthony
Sergeant Davis:
Reginald Jessup

The Press
A wide range of British newspapers serves different sections of the public. What are the functions of various types of newspaper and how does each set out to inform or entertain its readers?
Such questions are investigated by means of interview and discussion with proprietors, editors, reporters, and others interested in the operation of Fleet Street.
Among those taking part are:
Roy THOMSON
Chairman of The Scotsman and proprietor of the Sunday Times
JOHN BEAVAN
Editor of the Daily Herald
COLIN VALDAR
Editor of the Daily Sketch
RICHARD SCOTT
Diplomatic Correspondent of The Guardian
MURRAY SAYLE news reporter in Sydney and in Fleet Street
MARK ABRAMS of the London Press Exchange
ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN former Editorial Director of the Daily Express
JOHN PRINGLE
Deputy Editor of the Observer
FRANCIS WILLIAMS
ROBERT McKENZIE conducts the programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Thomson
Unknown:
John Beavan
Unknown:
Murray Sayle
Unknown:
Mark Abrams
Unknown:
Arthur Christiansen
Unknown:
John Pringle
Unknown:
Francis Williams
Unknown:
Robert McKenzie

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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