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visits Cheltenham for a programme of folk songs and dances with The Garden City Folk Group
Alex Hamilton (accordion) and the Gloster Square. Dance Band
Guest M.C., Nibs Matthews
Programme arranged and introduced by Kenneth Clark

Contributors

Accordion:
Alex Hamilton
Introduced By:
Kenneth Clark

LET'S JOIN IN
' Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel' by Virginia Lee Burton: how Mike saved Mary Ann from the scrapheap
2.20 THE GOLDEN COCKEREL
Pushkin's fairy tale about the oriental kingdom of King Dodon, set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov Second of two programmes introduced by Roger Fiske
2.40 MODERN HISTORY
The Berlin Air-Lift
Script by Henry Marshall
A dramatic reconstruction of the long and intricate operation which carried food and fuel to West Berlin when the Stalin Government attempted to force the Occupation Forces of Britain, France, and the U.S.A. out of the Western Sectors of Berlin.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roger Fiske
Script By:
Henry Marshall

Ah, Note of Fear. by JAMES McFarlan with Coral Fairwearher
When her husband died, Alice Bullingdon, feeling free at last to live a life of her own, shut up her big country house and went abroad. But she found she could not get away from the past.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
3.30 app. The Truth About
Great-Grandmamma by JAMES McFARLAN
Veronica Forsyth remembered her grandmother as a very formal and rather forbidding old lady, an average woman of her period. When Veronica and her husband were stripping an old sofa, however, some of the objects they found down the back of it did not at all suggest Victorian propriety.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Plays produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
James McFarlan
Unknown:
James McFarlan
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Alice:
Coral Fairweather
Mr Tewson:
Norman Claridge
Sir Bruce Mather-Bullingdon:
Anthony Shaw
Bill Armstrong:
Michael Turner
Theodora:
Mary O'Farrell
Paul Forsyth*:
Haydn Jones
Veronica Forsyth:
Margaret Gordon
Jackie:
Penelope Lee
Bobbo, a baritone:
Tom Watson
Mamma:
Nicolette Bernard
Maud:
Valerie Hanson
Charlesi:
Kenneth Dight

from St. Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, Co. Derry
Preces and Responses (Tallis) Psalms 108 and 109 First Lesson: Genesis 46, vv. 26-34. and 47. vv. 1-12
Magnificat (Walmisley in D minor) Second Lesson: Philippians 3
Nunc dimittis (Walmisley in D minor)
Creed: Lesser Litany; Versicles and Responses (Tallis)
Anthem: Call to remembrance
(Farrant)
Prayers; The Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Michael H. Franklin

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael H. Franklin

Junior Time
A programme for the fives to eights
Spin Me a Story
Records introduced by Claire Chovil

5.15 The Websters of Barrowdale: Orphans of the Storm
Written for broadcasting by Alick Hayes
Another incident in the life of a North-country veterinary surgeon and his family.
(BBC recording)

5.40 The Hobbit: 8: The Fire in the Woods
The book by J.R.R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson read in thirteen instalments by David Davis

Contributors

Presenter (Spin Me a Story):
Claire Chovil
Writer (The Websters of Barrowdale):
Alick Hayes
Producer (The Websters of Barrowdale):
Herbert Smith
Mr Webster:
Alick Hayes
Mrs Webster:
Daphne Oxenford
Helen:
Helen Fraser
Jasmine ' Bootle ':
Sian Davies
Roger:
Randolph Stubington
Jock Macdonald:
Paul Webster
Andy:
Colin Pearce
Bill Anstruther:
Graham Roberts
Author (The Hobbit):
J.R.R. Tolkien
Abridged by (The Hobbit):
Barbara Henderson
Reader (The Hobbit):
David Davis

A series of five-round contests
London v. Scotland
ROUND 2
London
Denis Brogan , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale
Scotland Sir James Fergusson Jack House
Quiz-Master, Kevin FitzGerald
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Sir James Fergusson
Unknown:
Jack House
Unknown:
Kevin Fitzgerald
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

by Ilys Booker
Menfi, a township of western Sicily, has a prince and a baron and 13,000 other inhabitants, mostly peasants. Here, where the notion of a ' community ' is virtually unknown and only family ties count, Ilys Booker works as a Community Development Officer. Her social centre is one of five established in Sicily by Danilo Dolci.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ilys Booker
Unknown:
Danilo Dolci.

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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