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Recordings from the past and present
Alexander Moyes introduces
FRONT PAGE
Stories behind the headlines told by the people who made them
Written by Gordon Cruickshank Produced by Denys Gueroult A shortened version of the recorded broadcast of May 20

Contributors

Introduces:
Alexander Moyes
Written By:
Gordon Cruickshank
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

from
NGATO MARSH the celebrated crime novelist and Professor A. C. B. LOVELL Director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station
Four teenagers ask the questions
In the chair, Peter Haigh
From an idea by Peter Haigh Produced by Edward Taylor
Recorded broadcast of July 28 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor A. C. B. Lovell
Unknown:
Peter Haigh
Unknown:
Peter Haigh
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
People I Like to Visit: Florence Priestley finds that visiting a house for the first time is always an adventure
My Landlady: Bruce Cooper attributes to her all that the word ' digs ' conjures up for him
Presented by John Dunn

Contributors

Presented By:
John Dunn

5. JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights Smokey
A dragon's tale in four parts by Margaret Potter
Music composed by Henry Reed
The story told by Graham Roberts Music played by Jimmy Leach Produced by Trevor Hill
6.15 MOSTLY JAZZ with Pete Haslam 's Collegians
Pete Haslam (trombone) Dave Potts (banjo) Cliff Jones (bass)
Denis Grundy (drums)
Brenda Tompkins (piano) Denis Gilmore (trumpet) Robin Haslam (clarinet)
Introduced by Peter Wheeler
5.30 FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF
Suggestions for Christmas books from
Henry Bentinck , Eileen Browne Arthur Calder-Marshall and Gordon Snell
5.50 Presenting This Week
Review of forthcoming programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Composed By:
Henry Reed
Told By:
Graham Roberts
Played By:
Jimmy Leach
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Pete Haslam
Unknown:
Pete Haslam
Unknown:
Dave Potts
Bass:
Cliff Jones
Bass:
Denis Grundy
Piano:
Brenda Tompkins
Piano:
Denis Gilmore
Clarinet:
Robin Haslam
Introduced By:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Henry Bentinck
Unknown:
Eileen Browne
Unknown:
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Unknown:
Gordon Snell
The Inventor:
Geoffrey Banks
Cuthbert:
Patricia Birch
The King:
Frederic Wilson

Regional Variations (7)

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News

BBC Home Service West

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Stock Market report

BBC Home Service Midland

News

BBC Home Service North

News. Stock Market report. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

South-Eastern News
6.30 Winter on Sheppey
A documentary programme about the Isle of Sheppey and its people at this time of the year
Presented by Richard Burwood
6.50 From the Local Press
A weekly review of what the papers in South-East England are saying
6.57 London Stock Market Report

Contributors

Presented By:
Richard Burwood

Regional Variations (4)

A World of Melody: Doreen Hume; BBC Midland Light Orchestra; conductor, Gilbert Vinter

BBC Home Service Midland

What About You, Jack?: men and families of a Clydeside factory. 2: Love and money

BBC Home Service Scottish

Open Day: 5. Derek John-stone visits the Zoology Dept. of the Queen's University of Belfast

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Bartok
Piano Concerto No. 3 played by Annie Fischer (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Igor Markevitch on a gramophone record

Contributors

Piano:
Annie Fischer
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch

Regional Variations (3)

In the Country: magazine

BBC Home Service Midland

BBC Scottish Orchestra; conductor, Norman Del Mar: Wagner, Kenneth Leighton, Roussel

BBC Home Service Scottish

A selection of recorded wit, music, and humour
Introduced by Basil Boothroyd
Including
Hermione Gingold
' Mehitabel sees Paris ' by Don Marquis

Paul McDowell and Mitzi McDowell ' I'm Ready, Freddy '

James Drake ' Nightmare ' by R. H. Young
Kenneth Williams and Peter Reeve
' Buy British ' by Peter Cook from the revue ' Pieces of Eight'

Charles Richardson Fables for Our Time by James Thurber
1: ' The Bear who let it alone
Musical interludes on records chosen by Robert Irwin Edited and produced by John Bridges

Contributors

Introduced By:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
Don Marquis
Unknown:
Paul McDowell
Unknown:
Mitzi McDowell
Unknown:
James Drake
Unknown:
R. H. Young
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Peter Reeve
Unknown:
Peter Cook
Unknown:
Charles Richardson
Unknown:
James Thurber
Unknown:
Robert Irwin
Produced By:
John Bridges

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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