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Overture. Rosamunde (Schubert):
Suisse Romande Orchestra, conductor. Ernest Ansermet
Elegy for viola and small orchestra
(Matyas Seiber ): Cecil Aronowitz (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Prelude, Tristan and Isolda
(Wagner) : Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch
Some recent gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Matyas Seiber
Violin:
Cecil Aronowitz
Conducted By:
Hans Knappertsbusch

DOUBLE BILL
Blackmail Is So Difficult by MICHAEL GILBERT
Miss Prince was a much respected old lady. Surely she could not have had anything to do with the large number of suicides among her circle of friends.
2.30 app. The Partnership by PAULINE MACAULAY
Sid and Bert were partners. They were prepared to take on anything—or so they thought. The question arose as to whether they could or could not afford to have a conscience.
Plays produced by R. D. Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Gilbert
Unknown:
Pauline MacAulay
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Miss Prince:
Gladys Young
Paeker:
Elsa Palmer
Mr Smith:
John Dearth
Sid:
Jon Rollason
Bert:
John Dearth
Man:
John Bryning
Felix:
Malcolm Hayes
First elderly lady:
Gladys Young
Second elderly lady:
Elsa Palmer
Joe:
Joe Sterne

A question and answer programme in which four scientists answer listeners' questions about science and technology In the Chair
Professor G. P. Wells , F.R.S. University of London
Members of the Panel ROBERT BOYD
University College. London G. F. CLARINGBULL
British Museum (Natural History) C. B. GOODHART
Museum of Zoology, Cambridge GWYNNE VEVERS
Zoological Society of London Arranged by Archie Clow
If you have a question you would like to put to the panel please write it on a postcard, and addresi it to ' Who Knows? ' BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
C. B. Goodhart
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

A musical programme for children under five with Ann Driver. Marjorie Westbury and Maurice Bevan
Tim Gudgin introduces today's programme, including 'Rain, Rain. Go Away ' and ' Little Pig in the Rain '

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Driver.
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Unknown:
Maurice Bevan
Introduces:
Tim Gudgin

Junior Theatre
I'OJLLY AND OLIVER BESIEGED
Written in six parts by David Scott Daniell
4: Fugitives at Large
Produced, by Peggy Bacon
BBC record'ing
5.25 YOU'RE TELLING US
A reminder from David about
Request Week Voting which starts this week
. See page 36
5.30 VISITING DAY
Wilfred Pickles visits the Leasowe Children's Hospital in Cheshire, and talks to some of the young patients inviting them to choose a record

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Polly Trott:
Mary Chester
Oliver Crowe:
Nigel Lambert
Sergeant Trott:
Jack Holloway
Private Pilchard:
Michael Shaw
Capitaine du Clos:
Keith Banks
Carlos Ibanez:
John Bryning
Mr Catchpole:
Arnold Peters

Anastasia by MARCELLE MAURETTE and GUY BOLTON
Adapted for radio by Leslie Fennell with Margaret Leighton as Anna Broun and Phyllis Neilson-Terry as The Dowager Empress of Russia
Produced by HUGH STEWART

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Fennell
Unknown:
Margaret Leighton
Unknown:
Anna Broun
Unknown:
Phyllis Neilson-Terry
Produced By:
Hugh Stewart
Prince Bounine:
Leslie Perrins
Boris Chernov:
Ralph Truman
Piotr Petrovsky:
Heron Carvic
Felix:
Roger Snowdon
Charwoman:
Susan Richards
Prince Pauk:
Ralph Hallett
Sleigh driver:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sergei:
Bill Horsley

Valda Aveling (harpsichord) Bach Toccata in E minor
Fugue in A minor (S.947)
Preludes and Fugues from
The Wen-Tempered Clavier Book 1: F sharp minor;
C sharp
Book 2: G; D minor
From Fenton House, Hampstead, London
The recorded broadcast of July 4

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Valda Aveling

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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