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A play for radio by AGATHA CHRISTIE
During a cocktail party a personal call comes through for James Brent which proves to have alarming consequences.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by David H. Godfrey
The recorded broadcast of November 29 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
James Brent
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mrs Lamb:
Vivienne Chatterton
James Brent:
Ivan Brandt
Fay:
Beatrice Bevan
Pamela Brent:
Barbara Lott
Evan:
Michael Turner
Mary:
Eva Stuart
Mr Enderby:
James Thomason
Inspector Narracott:
George Hagan

Country tunes and songs from the British Isles and abroad
Willie Walker and his Band with The Barry Sisters
Alex Glasgow
Billy Pigg (Northumbrian pipes)
Produced by Richard Kelly

Contributors

Unknown:
Willie Walker
Unknown:
Barry Sisters
Unknown:
Alex Glasgow
Unknown:
Billy Pigg
Produced By:
Richard Kelly

from St. Michael's, Comhlll in the City of London
Introit: Sweet was the song (Ballet) Responses (Smith) Psalms 60 and 61 I'Vst Lesson; Hosea 2, vv. 1-13 Magnificat (Wood in E flat) Second Lesson: Galatians 3
Nunc dimittis (Wood in E flat) Creed
The Lord's Prayer (Robert Stone) Responses (Smith)
Anthem: When Jesus Christ was yet a child (Tchaikovsky)
Prayers Blessing
Organist and Director of Music Harold Darke

Contributors

Music:
Harold Darke

JlINIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
The Happy Lion
A story by Louise Fatio told by David Lloyd James
5.15 THE IVORY CROCODILE
A new Charter Pilot serial written in six parts by Gilbert Dalton
Part 1
Produced by Peggy Bacon See page 39
5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson Read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
2: The Trolls
Poor Bilbo's Hobbit Hole was positively invaded by dwarves: thirteen of them, not counting Gandalf the Wizard. They came to tea and stayed to supper. And as darkness gathered, they sang songs about a dragon's hoard of gold under the misty mountains.

Contributors

Story By:
Louise Fatio
Told By:
David Lloyd James
Unknown:
Gilbert Dalton
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
Book By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Unknown:
David Davis
Mike Dudley:
Robert Marsden
Billy Perkins:
Billy Thatcher
Mrs Dudley:
Elspeth Duxbury
Angela:
Ysanne Churchman
John:
John Stirling
Jim Talbot:
Bob Arnold
George Rexford:
Philip Cunningham
Julie Rexford:
Thelma Rogers
Walter Rosenberg:
Arnold Peters
Felix Cardosa:
Philip Garston-Jones
Tom Wickham:
Peter Tuddenham
Miss Crossley:
Christine Lindsay

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
LONDON v. WEST
ROI'ND 1
London:
Denis Brogan , Geoffrey Grigson
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
West:
Alan Gibson , Vincent Waite
Quiz-Master, Stephen Potter
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Geoffrey Grigson
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Vincent Waite
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

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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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