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Theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
/ am the Light of the World
5: Christ the Light of all men Today's intention
For Lutheran and Presbyterian and Reformed Christians
Speaker: Dr. ARCHIE CRAIG Moderator Designate of the Church of Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Archie Craig

Three programmes of 19thcentury light verse monologues arranged and introduced by George MacBeth
3: Terrible Infants
Read by Brenda Dunrich.
Anthony Jacobs and Gary Watson
Recorded broadcast of Nov. 27. 1960

Contributors

Introduced By:
George MacBeth
Read By:
Brenda Dunrich.
Read By:
Anthony Jacobs
Read By:
Gary Watson

Prayer
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
(S.P. 626; C.H. 22; D.S.13; P.H. 223: Tune, Lobe den Herren.-S.P. 626)
Interlude: The Transfiguration of Jesus
Prayers; the Prayer for Purity; the Lord's Prayer
Be thou my Vision. (BBC Supplement 26: C.H. 477, omitting vr. 4, 5: Tune, Slane-C.H. 477)
Blessing

TIME AND TUNE by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN 1: Man the tool-maker
Life in the Somme Valley In the Old Stone Age
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 POETRY AND PERFORMANCE by A. Alvarez
Visiting Professor of English at Brandeis University, U.S.A.
1: W. B. Yeats
A group of four talks on the interpretation of poetry, with readings by the poet and another voice, and dealing with poets roughly representative of four generations of modern poetry. Talks for Sixth Forms series

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Unknown:
A. Alvarez
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats

A VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN INDIA
A glimpse of everyday life in an Indian village by Alan C. Jenkins
2.20 HOW THE GOSPELS
WERE WRITTEN
1: The programme describes the condition of the Christians in Rome before Mark's Gospel was written
Script by Margaret Boys
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I
' Treasure Island ' by Robert Louis Stevenson adapted for broadcasting in Ave parts by Garry Lyle
Part 1: The Captain's Papers
Jim Hawkins tells of the seafaring man who came to his father's inn, and of the visitor received by him. Jim describes how Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey decided to take him with them in search of treasure.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan C. Jenkins
Script By:
Margaret Boys
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Garry Lyle
Unknown:
Jim Hawkins
Unknown:
Doctor Livesey

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Introduced by Ivan Samson
Master of Ceremonies Charles Crathorn
Produced by Fredric Bayco
The dances: Marine Fourstep; Fytde Waltz ; Royal Empress Tango; Clarendon Saunter; Empress Mazurka; Victorian Gavotte ; Boston Twostep
Tickets may be obtained for the recording of this programme on January 18, at
6.45 p.m., on application to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Charles Crathorn
Produced By:
Fredric Bayco
Unknown:
Fytde Waltz
Unknown:
Victorian Gavotte

A weekly exploration of the BBC Sound Archives

An anthology of ghosts with verses written by Leonard Webb and spoken by Valentine Dyall

From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us.
(Old Cornish Litany)

Contributors

Verses written by:
Leonard Webb
Verses spoken by:
Valentine Dyall
Sound score by:
The Radiophonic Workshop
Programme devised and directed by:
John Powell

5.0 JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Alexander Armstrong
A serial dialogue story by John D. Stewart
12: Measles
Introduced by Cicely Mathews
5.15 I KNOW WHAT I LIKE
Well-known personalities are interviewed and choose some favourite records
This week: Ann Haydon
5.25 THE WEB OF CAESAR
A sequel to
' Beware the Hunter ' by Howard Jones
1: The Lost Fiddler
Alan Paul at the piano
Harold Smart at the electric organ
Produced by Clare Chovil
See page 55

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Armstrong
Story By:
John D. Stewart
Introduced By:
Cicely Mathews
Unknown:
Ann Haydon
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Unknown:
Alan Paul
Piano:
Harold Smart
Produced By:
Clare Chovil
Doctor John Haddon:
Frank Duncan
Angus Cochrane:
Alec Ross
Jocelyn Maitland:
Catherine Dolan
Albert Damien:
Rudolf Offenbach
Tom Spenlow:
Peter Wilde
Mrs Briggs:
Molly Rankin
Harker:
John Hollis
Sir Walter Swain:
Peter Howells
Sam Cleaver:
John Graham

A magazine about Britain at work
George Scott questions industrialists, trade unionists and workers in Britain and overseas on industrial issues of the moment
A broadcast centred on the Manchester studios of the BBC

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott

Tony Hancock with Sidney James
Bill Kerr , Warren Mitchell
Fenella Fielding, Fraser Kerr
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
The recorded broadcast of December 8, 1959, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Sidney James
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Warren Mitchell
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Written By:
Alan Simpson
Written By:
Ray Galton

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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